The Caves of Drach

First edition

The Caves of Drach is a juvenile science fiction novel, the seventeenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1977.

Plot summary

A multi-billionaire's grandson gets lost in the Caves of Drach in Majorca. The grandfather employs the team of astronauts (who are on holiday) to investigate. The expedition finds him in a huge and airy underground civilization peopled by practically immortal age-old humanoid beings who hail from the stars and took refuge underground when a Terran Ice-age threatened. The 'Cenobians' have a utopian civilization and avoid contact with the surface to keep it that way, and yet their advanced technology could bring an end to famine and disease.

External links

The Caves of Drach page

Hugh Walters's U.N.E.X.A series

U.N.E.X.A. series	Blast Off at Woomera (1957) The Domes of Pico (1958) Operation Columbus (1959) Moon Base One (1960) Expedition Venus (1962) Destination Mars (1963) Terror by Satellite (1964) Journey to Jupiter (1965) Mission to Mercury (1965) Spaceship to Saturn (1967) The Mohole Mystery (1968) Nearly Neptune (1969) First Contact? (1971) Passage to Pluto (1973) Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) Murder on Mars (1975) The Caves of Drach (1978) The Last Disaster (1978) The Blue Aura (1979) The Dark Triangle (1979) The Glass Men (unpublished)

Boy Astronaut	Boy Astronaut (1977) First Family on the Moon (1979) School on the Moon (1981)

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