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Renowned naturalist Craig Childs explores the paradoxical nature of
anthropological excavation amongst the Native American ruins his
work is based upon.
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 and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a
thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's
riveting new book is a ghost story--an intense, impassioned
investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave
behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art
galleries, journey throughout the Americas, Asia, the past and the
present. The result is a brilliant book about man and nature,
remnants and memory, a dashing tale of crime and detection.
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.
THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES tells of Craig Childs' own chilling
experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast
of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America,
jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk,
Bighorn Sheep, and others. More than chilling, however, these
stories are lyrical, enchanting, and reach beyond what one commonly
assumes an "animal story" is or should be. THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES is
a book about another world that exists alongside our own, an entire
realm of languages and interactions that humans rarely get the
chance to witness. "The author has a talent for bringing his
encounters home and fashioning them into chromatic, immediate
accounts. Some of the experiences chronicled here are quite simply
breath-catching and heart-gladdening...Each of these pieces is a
personal invitation to get outdoors and celebrate all things
furred, feathered and scaled."-Kirkus Reviews "Eloquent...Childs's
captivating essays, rich in sensuous imagery...are hauntingly
beautiful and replete with evocative observations of animal
life."-Publishers Weekly (starred)
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 various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on
Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th century to create a
civilization hailed as "the Las Vegas of its day," a flourishing
cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, and a
vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. By the 13th century,
however, Chaco's vibrant community had disappeared without a
trace.
Was it drought? Pestilence? War? Forced migration, mass murder
or suicide? Conflicting theories have abounded for years, capturing
the North American imagination for eons.
Join Craig Childs as he draws on the latest scholarly research, as
well as a lifetime of exploration in the forbidden landscapes of
the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling
mystery. He takes us from Chaco Canyon to the highlands of Mesa
Verde, to the Mongollon Rim; to a contemporary Zuni community where
tribal elders maintain silence about the fate of their Lost Others;
and to the largely unexplored foothills of the Sierra Madre in
Mexico, where abundant remnants of Anasazi culture lie yet to be
uncovered.
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hush (Paperback)
Craig Childs; Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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R505
Discovery Miles 5 050
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Nobody writes about nature and the American landscape the way Craig Childs does. Answering the call of the fiercest of terrains, he opens up to us sites that we would otherwise never visit, and through his uncanny powers of description, makes us feel that we have experienced the very essence of these places. The death-defying and life-affirming journeys that Childs records in Soul of Nowhere-journeys that take us from labyrinthine slots within the Grand Canyon to a deserted island in the Sea of Cortés, from the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Mexico to a fractured-rock Utah moonscape-make up an exhilarating exploration of the author's own (and our collective) attraction to remote and forbidding landscapes.
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