Craig Childs—naturalist, adventurer, desert ecologist, and frequent contributor to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition—is the author of The Secret Knowledge of Water, Soul of Nowhere, and The Way Out. Childs discusses House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the Southwest, in which he presents a portrait, in words and photos, of the Anasazi people: their rise to power, their diaspora, and, ultimately, the long road of their civilization’s demise.
($24.99) Little, Brown ISBN #978-0-316-60817-6.
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I love everything this guy has ever written. I grew up backpacking in AZ since I was 7.
I listened to this podcast traveling from Casas Grandes Northern Mexico back to home in Flagstaff,AZ. It has informed and inspired me own visual quest connecting both homes across this landscape connecting me to the past and present. Please visit my website for
visuals about this amazing landscape and the cultural and artistic florescence of the region
known as the Gran Chichimeca. A MIL GRACIAS for your words and stories!!!