![]() of a Lost World The Animal Dialogues The Secret Knowledge of Water House of Rain. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The official home page of author Craig Childs, featuring his books. 12)Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Childs's captivating essays, rich in sensuous imagery (the porcupine looks like a mop, a bundle of ponderosa pine needles, a mobile hairstyle), are hauntingly beautiful and replete with evocative observations of animal life. 12, 2007 Naturalist and essayist Childs ( House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, 2007, etc.) celebrates wild creatures met in wild places. Always longing to be at one with animals, he is not afraid to climb an aspen to see the world from a porcupine's perspective, run with a herd of elk or wonder how it would feel to jump from a plane and fly with a bald eagle. THE ANIMAL DIALOGUES UNCOMMON ENCOUNTERS IN THE WILD by Craig Childs RELEASE DATE: Dec. ![]() ![]() He goes looking for animals alone in hazardous wilderness areas-tracking mountain goats in Colorado's Gore Range or surprising a secret society of ravens in a canyon in Utah. Seeking entrée into animal societies, he interprets messages left in marks on the ground and in scents on leaves and trees, and communicates with animals directly using their own language of stares, gestures, postures, sounds, scents and gaits. ![]() ![]() In these eloquent essays, naturalist and adventurer Childs ( House of Rain) describes some of his extraordinary experiences with creatures-from wasps, red-spotted toads and hummingbirds to grizzly bears, coyotes and jaguars. ![]()
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