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| The Way Out: A True Story of Survival | 
| Author: Craig Childs
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 396842
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0316610666
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9
EAN: 9780316610667
ASIN: 0316610666
Publication Date: January 7, 2005
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 the meaning of lost February 28, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Rebeccasreads highly recommends THE WAY OUT as an "Amazing Grace" vision quest that is both hair-raising & immensely satisfying.
Anyone who has read Craig Childs' other books, such as THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF WATER or SOUL OF NOWHERE knows this man knows the desert. This time, however, the spectacular wilderness gets the better of him.
Or perhaps that's what vision quests are all about: to walk through the valley of your own death to come out the other side, pounds lighter, with a clearer focus on who you are, where you came from & where you're going.
Craig Childs writes like Georgia O'Keeffe paints -- spare, brilliant & memorable.
 Fascinating November 21, 2004
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Craig Childs and Dirk Vaughn have trekked together the United States for ten years, but as they drive in Utah to their latest starting point feels different. The plan is to hike the canyons of the American Southwest deserts where practically nothing lives for two weeks. Both men understand theoretically the danger of this quest as they carry as much food with them as possible because living off the land is impossible as even vegetation is scarce. This is survivor at its fittest as Craig and Dirk know maps are not very specific, the terrain is unfriendly, and they have no exit strategy.
On the wilderness journey, the men think back to what led them to this seemingly insane potentially deadly trip especially when they see early on the bleached bones of someone who failed to make it. Each reflects on their past: fights in bars and insane risk taking culminating with a need to prove themselves.
Both the journey and the surprising flashbacks grip the audience who take each dangerous step along aside the two explorers. --we discover the surprising legacy of violence that each man is escaping. Displaying candor Craig Childs pulls no punches as he exposes himself and Dirk to the scrutiny of true life tale advocates for he could have hidden the background and told a tale of two intrepid men undertaking the quest in a Sir Edmund Hilary context of it is there. Instead genre readers obtain a powerful biographical adventure tale that will haunt readers when they follow the why of needing the cleansing of the souls.
Harriet Klausner
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