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The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert

The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert

Childs, Craig

Paperback

Travel WritingEnvironmental StudiesNature Writing

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0316610690
ISBN13: 9780316610698
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: May 1 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
Naturalist Craig Childs's utterly memorable and fantastic study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post).

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.

Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again. --Suzannah Lessard, Washington Post

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