

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
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
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.
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
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
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
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