About this title: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9780316610698ISBN:0316610690
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Edition: Uncorrected Advance Proof
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: 2001
Description: Used; Like New. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; The field instructor and adventurer explores the desert environment that can be very inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorer. What people need to avoid is death from thirst--or drowning! He tells readers about his treks in search of water in mysterious solitary water holes, a network of streams that appear only at night, and a gushing mountain that conceals a hidden lake. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Date Published: 2000-02
ISBN-13:9781570611599ISBN:1570611599
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9780316610698ISBN:0316610690
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780316610698ISBN:0316610690
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781570611599ISBN:1570611599
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Book as new. Dj has very slight wear. No markings or creasing. Pages bright and tight. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sasquatch Books, Seattle
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781570611599ISBN:1570611599
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very good first edition hard cover. Purple boards with silver lettering on brown spine. Lightly bumped corners. Lightly rubbed. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Edge wear. Discovering the essence of the American Desert. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780316610698ISBN:0316610690
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780316610698ISBN:0316610690
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books, Boston
Date Published: May 1, 2001
ISBN-13:9780316610698ISBN:0316610690
Description: VG+ No DJ. 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches. previous owners name on half title page. Text block is lightly soiled. Spine is uncreased. Binding is tight. Covers are clean but show minor curling at corners. read more
"On the surface, this book's subject: desert water, seems, if you'll pardon the pun, dry. Childs, however, explores the hidden pools, raging cascades and subterranean sources of his chosen subject with a combination of scientific methodology (he's a fan of making lists) and adventurer's verve (a section on discovering the source of a spring in Grand Canyon is as harrowing as anything you'll find in say- Harry Potter.) Best of all is that Child's, though undeniably a reverent nature writer, never romanticizes the desert; there are things to be learned from this great expanse of shifting rock and sand, but the desert remains the desert and man remains man, an interloper."
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