Virga & Bone
Essays From Dry Places
Torrey House Press · Print & ebook · October 11, 2019
"It's impossible to imagine another writer in America who is better than Craig Childs at elegizing the fearsome and confounding appeal of our most austere landscapes." —KEVIN FEDARKO, author of The Emerald Mile 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 sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced.
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- Who it’s for
- Dry, sharp essays that turn the desert into a place for thought and nerve.
- Genres
- Nature Writing, Desert Life, Natural History
- Published
- Torrey House Press, October 11, 2019
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"It's impossible to imagine another writer in America who is better than Craig Childs at elegizing the fearsome and confounding appeal of our most austere landscapes." —KEVIN FEDARKO, author of The Emerald Mile 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 sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced.
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Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more–than–human. 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.
Dry Country Edge
Dry, sharp essays that turn the desert into a place for thought and nerve.
Come here for
- dry-country essays with edge
- adventure threaded through stark reflection
Expect
- layered, sustained reads
- insight with a little grit
Where it sits
| Desert Life | 87% |
|---|---|
| Nature Writing | 62% |
| Natural History | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Nature Writing
- Desert Life
- Travel Writing
- Authors
- Craig Childs
- Publisher
- Torrey House Press
- Published
- October 11, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Nature Writing