Overview
Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West-as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history-has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme.
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Author: Craig Childs
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Imprint: Little Brown and Company
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 14.20cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9781549124723
ISBN 10: 1549124722
Publication Date: 07 May 2019
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An astute observer of nature and a concise writer with a knack for storytelling...Recommended for all regional and most natural history collections. -- Library Journal His hypnotic new book describes an existential adventure...Childs mingles personal observations with a cosmic perspective to make readers feel an integral part of earth's hydrologic processes. Far from being arid, his narrative ripples with adventure. -- Publishers Weekly Childs writes...with a measured lyricism that well suits the achingly lovely back canyons and cactus forests of the Southwest. By turns travelogue, ecological treatise, and meditative essay, Childs' book will speak to anyone who has spent time under desert skies, wondering when the next drop of rain might fall. -- Amazon.com The Secret Knowledge of Water exhibits an almost spiritual feel for the desert and its inhabitants. -- Science News Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again. -- Washington Post
Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again. -- Washington Post His hypnotic new book describes an existential adventure...Childs mingles personal observations with a cosmic perspective to make readers feel an integral part of earth's hydrologic processes. Far from being arid, his narrative ripples with adventure. -- Publishers Weekly Childs writes...with a measured lyricism that well suits the achingly lovely back canyons and cactus forests of the Southwest. By turns travelogue, ecological treatise, and meditative essay, Childs' book will speak to anyone who has spent time under desert skies, wondering when the next drop of rain might fall. -- Amazon.com An astute observer of nature and a concise writer with a knack for storytelling...Recommended for all regional and most natural history collections. -- Library Journal The Secret Knowledge of Water exhibits an almost spiritual feel for the desert and its inhabitants. -- Science News
His hypnotic new book describes an existential adventure...Childs mingles personal observations with a cosmic perspective to make readers feel an integral part of earth's hydrologic processes. Far from being arid, his narrative ripples with adventure. -- Publishers Weekly Childs writes...with a measured lyricism that well suits the achingly lovely back canyons and cactus forests of the Southwest. By turns travelogue, ecological treatise, and meditative essay, Childs' book will speak to anyone who has spent time under desert skies, wondering when the next drop of rain might fall. -- Amazon.com The Secret Knowledge of Water exhibits an almost spiritual feel for the desert and its inhabitants. -- Science News Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again. -- Washington Post An astute observer of nature and a concise writer with a knack for storytelling...Recommended for all regional and most natural history collections. -- Library Journal
Author Information
Craig Childs, naturalist, adventurer, and desert ecologist, is the author of numerous books, including The Animal Dialogues, House of Rain, The Way Out, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Apocalpytic Planet, and Soul of Nowhere. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and, for his body of work, the 2003 Spirit of the West Award. He has been a regular commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, the Sun, and Orion Magazine.
