Pavel Kunaver
Pavel Kunaver was a Slovene pedagogue, writer of popular science books, geography, history and Slovene language teacher and pioneer of amateur astronomy, mountain climbing, skiing and caving in Slovenia.
In 1912 he became the leader of cave exploration at Ljubljana Cave Exploration Society , after DZRJL secretary Josip Cerk perished in a snow blizzard on top of Mt. Stol. In the aftermath of World War II the revival of DZRJL was to a great extent based on establishing middle school caving clubs, which Kunaver promoted with great success.
He won the Levstik Award in 1981 for his book Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah.Selected Published Works
- Na planine, 1921
- Po gorah in dolinah, 1923
- Zadnja pot kapitana Scotta, 1926
- V prepadih, 1932
- Skozi led in sneg, 1944
- Sprehodi po nebu, 1944
- Pastir v Zlatorogovem kraljestvu, 1945
- Potovanje po nebu, 1951
- Nebo nad nami, 1956
- Neizprosen sever, 1958
- Cerkniško jezero, 1961
- Brezna in vrhovi, 1974
- Kažipot po nebu, 1974
- Moje steze, 1979
- Pravljica in resnica o zvezdah, 1981
