Craig Childs
Autor(a) de House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
About the Author
Craig Childs is a river guide, a field instructor in natural history, an adventurer, & a writer. His other books include "Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild" (Sasquatch). He camps in the backcountry of the American West at least nine months of the year, usually living in mostrar mais the back of his truck, out of a river vessel, or from his backpack. He hasn't had a phone in ten years. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Bruce Hucko
Obras de Craig Childs
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th century
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Arizona, USA
Colorado, USA - Premiações
- 2008 Galen Rowell Art of Adventure Award
2007 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
2003 Spirit of the West Award
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Membros
- 2,032
- Popularidade
- #12,650
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 62
- ISBNs
- 70
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 5
"Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, of swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, of watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at two hundred miles per hours, or of engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert water hole, Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he puts the reader in his boots.
"Each of the compelling narratives in The Animal Dialogues focuses on the author's own encounter with a particular species and is replete with astonishing facts about the species' behavior, habitat, breeding, and life span. The glory of each essay, however, lies in Childs's ability to portray the sometimes brutal beauty of the wilderness, to capture the individual essence of wild creatures, to transport the reader beyond the human realm and deep inside the animal kingdom."
~~front flap
This is an amazing book! Each essay is a perfect little jewel, leading the reader into the life of a wild animal, bird, raptor, insect or fish. You see with the animal's eyes, smell with its nose, feel the rush of cascading hormones during the rut, tremble and cower in fear as a predator draws near ...
Childs must have spent the better part of his adult life in the wilderness, to have had so many astonishing encounters. Most people are lucky to have two or maybe three -- he's survived hundreds. To experience the beauty of the remote wilderness, to walk in the boots of a consummate naturalist, to be transported into the body of an animal or bird and experience life through their eyes and senses ... read this book. You won't be able to put it dow… (mais)