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Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters With Animals in the Wild

2 reviews
Craig Leland Childs

Sasquatch Books, 1997

Crossing Paths
A stunning and lively account of encounters with animals in unusual and not-so unusual settings. Childs does his research on the behavior and anatomy of many of the animals he writes about which I found impressive. Not only does he open the reader's eyes to the many faces of animal behaviour and character, but he also injects human emotion, which allows the reader to connect with each story. The ...

The Desert Cries: A Season of Flash Floods in a Dry Land

2 reviews
Craig Leland Childs

Arizona Highways Books, 2002

Narrative Nonficiton At Its Best
While on a recent trip to Anza Borrego Desert State Park, I saw The Desert Cries: A season of Flash Floods in a Dry Land on the shelf in the visitor center. Since I knew a thing or two about flash floods, I flipped through a few pages. Yikes. I was in it, and it wasn't an entirely flattering depiction. But of course, I had to buy the book. That night, while camped in a desert wash, I read The ...

The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert

26 reviews
Craig Childs

Back Bay Books, 2001

Simply, the best
This is an incredibly good book - extremely well written, very powerful,reminiscent of Edward Abbey, and, I must admit, better than my own desert travel journal, Desert Dancing: Exploring the Land, the People, the Legends of the California Deserts (Hunter Travel Guides). I'm jealous but respectful. Mr. Childs earned his knowledge the best way, by being there, and he takes us along on these ...

Grand Canyon: Time Below the Rim

1 review
Craig Leland Childs

Arizona Highways Books, 1999

A wonderful book
It's the first book I've seen that truly captures the spirit of the Canyon. The photography is superb; the text is readable and informative.

Soul of Nowhere

11 reviews
Craig Childs

Back Bay Books, 2003

Loved the book, the concept and writing
I read this book with a highlighter pen, marking passages about the places, and comments about humans relating to their inner soul and to nature. I found it deeply personal and, therefore, may not be everyone's "cup of tea". The writing at times was amazing and then just good. This is a collection of the author's experiences, both interior and exterior. It is called the Soul of Nowhere! and ...

The Way Out: A True Story of Survival

7 reviews
Craig Childs

Little, Brown and Company, 2005

Life In The Stone
Craig Childs explores and describes the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau like no one else can. In "The Way Out", Childs and a friend navigate through a maze of canyons incised deeply into the Navajo Sandstone of northern Arizona. This could be just another wilderness adventure, a book to sit beside the countless other wilderness essays on bookstore shelves, but it is not: I have seen the ...

The Animal Dialogues

10 reviews

Little, Brown and Company, 2007

Wonderful writer, amazing stories
Childs has created a beautifully written book about animals and journeys into their abodes. He lashes a poet's equipoise to an adventurer's rugged wagon and traverses stories that are breathtaking both in their raw facts and in their telling. A wonderful book.

Stone Desert: A Naturalist's Exploration of Canyonlands National Park

1 review
Craig Leland Childs

Westcliffe Publishers, 2001

Very Real
Stone Desert was very realistic. It was hard to follow at first because every (hike) or adventure had a lot of little interesting facts. I would get lost, like the Craig did while he was exploring and hiking in the canyons of the Stone Desert. I could almost feel the cold rocks and how it would feel to find water when there was so little to find. I liked that he found pottery, paintings and left ...

House of Rain

27 reviews

Little, Brown and Company, 2007

Anasazi Explained
This is a jaw-dropper of a book. Of all the books about the Anasazi, this is the only one that tells it all, puts it all together. Craig Childs has trudged his soulful way through all the dwellings, all the literature, tracing these mysterious people's movements over hundreds of years and hundreds of miles. He has given full rein to common sense and intuition in figuring out who they were, what ...

The Way Out

2 reviews

Back Bay Books, 2007

An Incredible Journey
The Way Out is a book you'll want to read over and over again. It's just too powerful to fully absorb in one reading. As with "The Secret Knowledge of Water", Mr. Childs leads you into the very psyche of Living Land. He bears his soul and humbles himself before a chasm of rock. An absolute master of imagery and metaphor, Mr. Childs doesn't just take you into the majesty of a canyon or the ...

CHICAGO MURDERS
Nellise Child, Otto Eisenschiml, John Bartlow Martin, Leroy F. McHugh, Craig Rice, Vincent Starrett & Edited By Sewell Peaslee Wright Elizabeth Bullock

Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1945

Common Sense: The Declaration of Independence (Audio Classics)
Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Childs

Carmichael & Carmichael, 1986

Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws and how this right of resistance was transformed into a right of revolution. It examines Thomas Paine's views on the difference between society and government, his defense of republican government, his total rejection of hereditary monarchy, and his belief that Americans should take up arms against the English government. The Declaration of Independence ...

Der Wasserkartograf.
Craig Childs

Frederking u. Thaler, 2004

Grand Canyon Stories: Then & Now

1 review
Leo W. Banks, Craig Childs

Arizona Highways Books, 1999

Real Grand Canyon stories
I picked up this book when I was going out to see and hike the Grand Canyon. The book is much more interesting in context, i.e. you've seen and undertand the scale and the environment of the Grand Canyon. The book has a series of short vignettes, arranged roughly chronologically, about explorers, miners and assorted neer do wells that really gave life and reality to my experience hiking and ...

Democracy in America (The Audio Classics Series: Giants of Political Thought)

Knowledge Products, 2006

Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of nineteenth-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America . The democratic concept of equality was emerging as a political reality in America, and it threatened the aristocracy of Europe; it produced a society of individualists hungry for self improvement. In this classic treatise, Tocqueville weighed the advantages of democracy against its dangers. He asked: Is the ...

Assessing the ruins. (comments of EPA employees about the agency)(includes related articles): An article ...
Craig Leland Childs

Earth Action Network, Inc., 1995

This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on June 1, 1995. The length of the article is 5314 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: A group of male EPA executives on a hiking trip talk about their ...

The Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

3 reviews
Craig Childs

Sasquatch Books, 2004

Great Photos
...of the earth and its atmosphere at its finest! How did the photographer know just where to be to get these wonderful photos? My entire family LOVES this book, discovered by my fourteen year old who loves to look at and study clouds. I bought the book for her because she BEGGED me for it! Truly a family favorite for years to come. BUY THIS BOOK! You won't be disappointed!

Colorado

2 reviews
Art Wolfe, Craig Leland Childs

Sasquatch Books, 2000

A Few Brilliant Photographs, But.....
I bought this book because I am in the process of photographing a Colorado photography book myself, and I wanted to see what else was out there. Although there are about 10 very impressive "close-up" photos in this book, the rest of the images, especially the landscapes, are fairly marginal. In addition, most of the images were taken from just 4 or 5 locations throughout the state. So it ...

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