Description From the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a half-blind bighorn ram, a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, solitude on the Green River.
Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more-than-human.
About the Author Craig Childs is the author of more than a dozen books on nature, adventure, and science, including The Secret Knowledge of Water and Atlas of a Lost World.
His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Outside.
Recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and the Sigurd F.
Olson Nature Writing Award, he lives in Colorado.
Torrey House Press Virga & bone: essays from dry places, paperback/craig childs
