Wild Places Publishing

Wild Places Publishing specialises in caving-related publications and was formed with book publication in mind. Its growth has, however, been closely linked with perhaps the best known of its publications, Descent magazine. Descent was launched as a small-format magazine in January 1969, price 2/6 (12.5p). Its first editor and publisher was Bruce Bedford - you can read the story of those early years in Descent (210) - under various publishing names: Descent Publications, The Mendip Press and eventually Mendip Publishing.