Virga  Bone, Craig Childs
Virga  Bone, Craig Childs
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Virga & Bone
Essays from Dry Places

Author: Craig Childs

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature


Synopsis

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. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more–than–human.

About Craig Childs

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 John

A born son of the Southwestern US, Craig Childs writes about his experiences in this vast, thinly-inhabited, mostly desert region. Rather than just a death trap, the region is alive in hardy plants and animals, rocks and history, replete with the ghosts of the people and animals that have lived and......more

Goodreads review by Megan

If you have one ounce of desert rat in you, you will be so ready for a trip to see some dusty, dry, but unbelievably gorgeous red rock and blue sky after reading this book.......more

Goodreads review by Diane

Childs' mesmerizing prose is reminiscent of Edward Abbey. If the desert and nature call to you, you'll love reading his work. This collection of essays about experiencing the desert will draw you into dry and ancient places in the Southwest, sharing archaeological observations and modern viewpoints......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

It starts and finishes strong, but the middle essays didn’t resonate as much with me personally. In my head I was comparing it pretty directly with Ellen Meloy’s “Seasons: Desert Sketches” from the same publisher, and I consider Meloy’s anthology one of my favorite books. Virga & Bone came a little......more