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Essays from Dry Places
"It's impossible to imagine another writer in America who is better than Craig Childs at elegizing the fearsome and confounding appeal of our most aus...
Field Guide to the Future of the Earth
From the deserts of Chile, through the genetic wasteland of central Iowa, to the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, the author of House of Rain un...
There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning
Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and hi...
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 t...
This new edition of a Craig Childs classic includes his original journal entries and pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the redrock desert of Canyonland...
Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
Childs, author of "Crossing Paths" takes on the defining subject of the arid west: water. But his is the search for the secretive water of the desert ...
A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero -- or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum an...
Travels in Ice Age America
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at lea...
Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The va...
Field Guide to the Everending Earth
Discusses the Earth's inherent instability and susceptibility toward violent natural disasters and climate extremes, challenging beliefs about apocaly...
Seasons with Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateauโbighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with uprai...
Then & Now
A collection of short vignettes, arranged in rough chronological order, about explorers, miners and assorted characters associated with the Grand Cany...
Art Wolfe has photographed many of the wild places of Colorado. As a climber and hiker, he is willing to search out special and remote views that aren...
Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he is drawn to it. For Childs, these are the types of...
A Season of Flash Floods in a Dry Land
Flash floods spread violence and anger over the land. And yet, they sometimes bring peace and grace.If you have never seen a flash flood, you will in ...
Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light
At a time when most people on Earth live in regions of acute light pollution, Craig Childs takes us on journey to rediscover the awesome power of nigh...
Forever Changing Between Four Corners and the Sea of Cortes
The Southwest is deemed contrary because landscapes as foreign to each other as ocean and desert, forests of pine and forests of cactus, rivers and se...
Time Below the Rim
A combination of photographs and text create a unique look at the Grand Canyon's natural vegetation, trails, and wildlife....
The Colorado Plateau from Above and Below
In Flying Home, The Colorado Plateau from Above and Below, Craig Childs is your guide as he and his pilot friend Neal Schwieterman hop from one mesa-t...
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Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Focusing his camera on the many shapes and forms of the elements--earth, air, fire, and water--Wolfe brings all his famed sense of composition, patter...
Reclaimed
John Grade's drawings, sculptures and installations are weathered, marked, worn and disintegrated. Made of reclaimed wood or paper, the works are buri...