The Way Out: A True Story of Ruin and Survival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780316107037)

The "gritty and riveting" story of naturalist Craig Childs's epic journey through the desert canyons of the American Southwest (The Oregonian).

Are you prepared for a perilous journey into the wild?

This taut, intensely dramatic narrative immerses us in a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing is alive -- barely any vegetation, few signs of wildlife, and scant traces of any human precursors -- and where we pay witness as two men confront not just immutable forces of nature but the limits of their own sanity. As a chronicle of adventure, as an emotionally charged human drama, as a confessional memoir, The Way Out is a transcendent book, a work destined to earn a lasting place in the literature of extremes.

Author: Craig Childs
ISBN-10: 0316107034
ISBN-13: 9780316107037
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 07/01/2006 pg. 36