Press for Hidden Nature
Save the Caves
“Scenic Roots,” a radio program of WUTC in Chattanooga, Tennessee, aired this March 2021 interview about residents in southern locations fighting to stop proposed rock quarries from destroying mountains, scenery, and wildlife.
DESCENT/Speleo Reader
Chris Howes, editor and publisher of the premier British caving magazine Descent, reviews Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves in the December 2020 issue. (Note: the publisher cataloging data Chris mentions at the end of his review was fixed after the first 80 copies were printed. If you have a copy with the wrong book’s data, that might be a collector’s item.)
Deep Into the Underground Wilderness
Ray Bassett, the host of “Scenic Roots” on WUTC in Chattanooga, Tennessee, interviews Mike about the new book, his first experience underground, caves and cavers, and some ongoing environmental threats to caves in Tennessee and beyond.
AY/ About You Magazine
Joe David Rice profiles “cave man” Michael Ray Taylor in a popular Arkansas magazine, discussing his past nonfiction work and obsession with caves, culminating in Hidden Nature.
THV-11, “The Vine”
A morning show segment in advance of the Six Bridges Book Festival in Little Rock.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Morgan Acuff interviews Mike and praises Hidden Nature.
Six Bridges Book Festival
Michael Hibblen, then Senior Producer/Director of Public Affairs at Arkansas PBS, interviews Mike for Little Rock’s Six Bridges Book Festival on what caves can tell us about the past.
Places Previously Unseen: Author and journalist Hamilton Cain talks with Mike about Hidden Nature, coincidence, and “the dark corners of hidden spaces, unseen cathedrals.”
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Author Hamilton Cain interviews Mike about tour caves and coincidence in Hidden Nature.
Earlier press
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Terry speaks with Mike about his book Caves, the geology of underwater caves and ice caves, and the secret microbial life flourishing underground.
Living on Earth
Delicate Passages: NPR’s Steve Curwood speaks with Mike about the secrets recently yielded from this mysterious terrain and precautions taken to preserve it.
Living on Earth
Hot Springs Microphiles: Producer Sam Hendren and science journalism professor Michael Ray Taylor go on an expedition to Hot Springs National Park in search of exotic microbes.
Diane Rehm Show
Author and cave explorer Michael Ray Taylor introduces us to “dark life” — bacteria and other organisms that live without air or light deep underground, underwater, and possibly even in outer space.
Going to extremes: Dangling from a rope down a deep pit of acid, hot water and poison gas might not be most people’s idea of a good time — but there’s nowhere else caver Michael Ray Taylor would rather be.