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 America

Childs, author of "Crossing Paths" takes on the defining subject of the arid west: water. But his is the search for the secretive water of the desert where flow

Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks th