Journey to the bottomless pit
Subtitle: the story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave
By: Elizabeth Mitchell ; illustrations by Kellyn [i.e. Kelynn] Alder.
Contributors: Alder, Kelynn, ill.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Caves -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Mammoth Cave (Ky.) -- Juvenile fiction; Mammoth Cave (Ky.) -- Fiction; Kentucky -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms.