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.
- ISBN10 0316610690
- ISBN13 9780316610698
- Publish Date 1 May 2001 (first published 30 November 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English