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 0316055301
- ISBN13 9780316055307
- Publish Date 14 December 2008 (first published 30 November 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Back Bay Books
- Format eBook
- Language English