The Secret Knowledge of Water, Craig Childs
The Secret Knowledge of Water, Craig Childs
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The Secret Knowledge of Water
There Are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning

Author: Craig Childs

Narrator: Craig Childs

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). 

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. 

"Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again." —Suzannah Lessard, Washington Post

Author Bio

Craig Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including The Secret Knowledge of Water, Atlas of a Lost World, and Virga & Bone. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly, and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. He lives in southwest Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlie on July 25, 2007

I read this book while in rain drenched Ireland, in an escape from drought-stricken southern California. And throughout my trip, my mind kept occasionally coming back to water and the desert. Most of my good friends know how obsessed I am with water.. when it moves, when it cuts into soft sand, when......more

Goodreads review by Alex on May 02, 2021

I have a new favorite book. The Secret Wisdom of Water, written by Craig Childs. He describes his adventures seeking water in the desert. He describes the relationships between water and life and our utter dependence on it. He describes mechanisms and dramas of storms. He describes powerful natural......more

Goodreads review by Emma on August 12, 2024

Probably the best Craig Childs book I’ve read so far, so worthy of four stars in that way. I really enjoy the way Childs describes natural phenomena, especially when talking about desert fish and their unique abilities to withstand extreme floods. However, I don’t love the journal-y sections describ......more