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(0)Craig Childs
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English
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"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it."
—R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears
—R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears
Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open
...2) Stone Desert
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
This new edition of a Craig Childs classic includes his original journal entries and pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the redrock desert of Canyonlands National Park.
Originally published over twenty-five years ago, Stone Desert brings the wonder and wildness of one of our nation's most geologically and culturally unique national parks to readers everywhere. With a new introduction by the author, this edition includes Craig...
Originally published over twenty-five years ago, Stone Desert brings the wonder and wildness of one of our nation's most geologically and culturally unique national parks to readers everywhere. With a new introduction by the author, this edition includes Craig...
Author
Language
English
Description
"[A] deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in a dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Writer and adventurer Craig Childs delves into the primacy of our starkest landscapes and the profound nature of the more-than-human."-- Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and describes the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. Scientistssquabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Beyond what most people think about archaeology--with its cleanly numbered dates, and discoveries--lies a vibrant and controversial realm of scientists, thieves, and contested land claims. Here, naturalist and adventurer Childs explores the field's transgressions against the cultures it tries to preserve, and pauses to ask: To whom does the past belong? Written in his trademark lyrical style, this book carries readers directly into his adventures...