The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs

The Secret Knowledge of Water

Craig Childs

304 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

Description

The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert r...

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