“Enchanting, mournful yet hopeful. Childs ruminates almost poetically on the ageless use of stellar navigation by all manner of species, from birds to grasshoppers to great human civilizations, and what happens to them when the stars disappear.”—BOOKLIST, starred review
“Scientific and poetic, The Wild Dark conveys a galvanizing message: Light pollution is the simplest environmental damage to reverse. Just turn the lighting down, or off.”—FOREWORD REVIEWS, starred review
At a time when most people on Earth live in regions of acute light pollution, Craig Childs takes us on a journey to rediscover the awesome power of night itself.
Seeking not the absence of light, but the presence of the universe, master storyteller Craig Childs sets out to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. A fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, Childs guides us on a quest to rediscover the heavens and to ask: "What does it do to us to not see the night sky?" The Wild Dark is at once an adventure story, a field guide, and a celebration of the awesome power of night itself, inviting us to look up and to look inward, eyes wide and sparkling with stars.
ISBN-13: 9798890920188
Genre: Nature & Outdoors
Format: Hardcover
Trim: 5.75" x 8.5"
Page count: 212 pages
Published by Torrey House Press in 2025
Written by Craig Childs
Audience: General
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