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COMING MAY 20, 2025
“Once this book has had its way with you, you’ll throw down your bag. You’ll ditch the headlamp and turn off that damn phone. You’ll revert to the thing we were meant to be—wide-eyed and wild, to the bone.”
—AMY IRVINE, Desert Cabal
Galley Love of the Week Giveaway
Be among the first to read The Wild Dark by Craig Childs, an official Shelf Awareness Galley Love of the Week selection. GLOW selects books that have not yet been discovered by booksellers and librarians, identifying the ones that will be important hand-selling titles in a future season.
THE WILD DARK:
Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light
by CRAIG CHILDS
A night sky is not an absence of light; it is the presence of the universe.
In The Wild Dark, master storyteller Craig Childs embarks on a quest to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. Childs is a fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, making him the perfect guide to help us rediscover the heavens and to ask: “What does it do to us to not see the night sky?” In a book that is at once an adventure story, a field guide, and a celebration of wonder, Childs invites us to look up and to look inward, eyes wide and sparkling with stars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CRAIG CHILDS is an explorer who brings tales of deserts and ice caps to the page. He has published more than a dozen books of science, nature, and personal experience. His nonfiction narratives and journalism have appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, High Country News, The Sun, the LA Times, New York Times, NPR, and Radiolab. He lives in Southwest Colorado.
“As ever, Childs weaves in urgent issues, from what artificial light does to birds, to night sky advocacy, to solutions for protecting the flickering stars that grace us. One leaves this gorgeous book filled with wonder, not only for stars, but for everything from tarantulas to archeoastronomy.”
—LAURA PRITCHETT, Playing with Wildfire
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