Crossing a Sea of Dunes, with Craig Childs

Acclaimed author, extreme traveler, and master storyteller...

For the last five years Craig Childs has been making treks across a 5,000-square-mile sand dune sea in northern Mexico, a place he calls the most enchanting and treacherous landscape he has ever witnessed.

On grueling journeys, walking barefoot with over a hundred pounds of
water strapped to his body, he has traveled into the heart of this
desperately beautiful country.

He comes with a stunning slideshow and breathtaking stories from an otherworldly desert.

Author of several critically acclaimed books,including Soul of Nowhere, The Secret Knowledge of Water, The Way Out, and forthcoming, House of Rain, Childs is often compared to Edward Abbey and Barry
Lopez. Childs has made himself an intimate of the American continent's most extreme and arid environment and has distilled a compelling message of home and warning from his adventures.

The LA Times says Childs' writing is "pure oxygen," that "stings like a slap in the face."

The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Childs feats of asceticism are nothing if not awe-inspiring: he's a modern day desert father."

A brief Bio:

Much of Craig Childs' work is hand-written before it appears in print, his penmanship hounded by wind storms, by freezing nights alone, and by the blaze of desert heat. What comes out is writing that the Los Angeles Times calls "pure oxygen." The San Francisco Chronicle says, "Where his language is as taut as the lands he chronicles, Childs
achieves the spare elegance of these Southwestern landscapes."

Childs has written several highly acclaimed books, including The Secret Knowledge of Water, and most recently, House of Rain. His work has appeared in the LA Times, Orion, Outside, Audubon, and Sierra. He is also a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and for his radio report from near Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001, the Washington Post called him "one of the only sane voices heard on that day."

Childs won the Spirit of the West Award for his body of work, an honor shared by Wallace Stegner, N. Scott Momaday, Tony Hillerman, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Terry Tempest Williams. He is also recipient of the Colorado Book Award. Twice his books have made the Book Sense Top 76 list, and Secret Knowledge of Water was picked by the LA Times as "one of the best books in the country."