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| Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters With Animals in the Wild | 
| Author: Craig Leland Childs
Creator: Sivi Ruder
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy Used: $1.91
You Save: $13.04 (87%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 944046
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1570611017
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.978
EAN: 9781570611018
ASIN: 1570611017
Publication Date: September 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages.
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
River guide and author Craig Childs has a weakness for encountering animals on their home turf--and the bigger and fiercer the animal, it seems, the better. Mixed with his notes on these encounters are some first-rate biological descriptions of elements such as the flight feathers of a bald eagle or the wool of a mountain goat. Childs offers the reader exact, thoughtful descriptions of wild places and the animals that inhabit them. He examines the fecundity of coyotes and salmon, the terrible determination of mosquitoes, the play of the senses, and the ways of mountain lions and grizzly bears. Animal lovers everywhere will want this remarkable book close at hand.
Book Description
Naturalist and adventurer Craig Childs expresses a fresh view of the natural world in these stories of his encounters with wild animals--such as mountain lions, sharks, horned owls, pronghorns, and rainbow trout--in the most remote places of the West.
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| Customer Reviews:
The Secret Knowledge of Water by Childs February 1, 2001
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a beautifully written book which reads like poetry. It is a must for a nature lover's library. Annette Otts Beaverton, Al.
Crossing Paths November 2, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A stunning and lively account of encounters with animals in unusual and not-so unusual settings. Childs does his research on the behavior and anatomy of many of the animals he writes about which I found impressive. Not only does he open the reader's eyes to the many faces of animal behaviour and character, but he also injects human emotion, which allows the reader to connect with each story. The accounts are not just moving, but downright hillarious at times.
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