The Secret Knowledge of Water: There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning

Childs, Craig

ISBN 10: 0316610690 / ISBN 13: 9780316610698

Verlag: Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2001

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M00316610690-G

Inhaltsangabe:

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Craig Childs -- naturalist, adventurer, desert ecologist, and frequent contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition -- lives in Crawford, Colorado. His previous books include House of Rain, The Way Out, The Secret Knowledge of Water, and Soul of Nowhere.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Secret Knowledge of Water: There Are Two...
Verlag: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good