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fle dog” , explored archive, libraries, files and retrieved a 
number of detailed pieces of information on the name of 
the cave itself and its main features during the last cen-
turies.
This book is a precious contribution to the knowl-
edge of the history of  the Postojna Cave and should find 
a place in the library of any person interested to this ar-
gument for 16 €.
Arrigo A. Cigna
Postojna cave is the show cave universally known from 
some centuries. f or this reason the cave has been quoted 
in a number of manuscripts, reports and publications. 
No wonder, therefore, if in the course of time the cave 
was known with different names. Its location, close to 
political borders, resulted in another reason of changes 
since the territory belonged respectively to Austria, Italy 
and Slovenia. Once again Trevor Shaw produced another 
book in the framework of the history of speleology. If I 
am allowed to make a comparison he, as an expert “truf-
TREVOR SHAW: NAMES f ROM THE PAST IN POTOJNSKA JAMA (POSTOJNA, CAVE). 
ZALOŽBA ZRC/ZRC PUBLISHING, LJUBLJANA 2006, 151 PAGES
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