Soul of Nowhere

Nobody writes about nature and the American landscape the way Craig Childs does. Answering the call of the fiercest terrains, he opens up to us sites that we would otherwise never visit and, through his uncanny powers of description, makes us feel that we have experienced the very essence of these places. The death-defying and life-affirming journeys that Childs records in Soul of Nowhere - journeys that take us from labyrinthine slots within the Grand Canyon to a deserted island in the Sea of Cortes, from the Sierra Madre in northern Mexico to a fractured-rock Utah moonscape - make up an exhilarating exploration of the author's own (and our collective) attraction to remote and forbidding landscapes.