SALT LAKE CITY, UT | Craig Childs at Ken Sanders Rare Books

Craig Childs will be signing books and mingling at Ken Sanders Rare Books from 12-2PM on Friday the 13th of June (spooky and celestiall)...Come meet him during your lunch hour and get a copy signed!

The following is a summary of The Wild Dark:

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.


CRAIG CHILDS has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau, The Secret Knowledge of Water, Atlas of a Lost World, Virga & Bone, Stone Desert Journal, and The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light (Torrey House Press, May 2025). He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. He lives in southwest Colorado.

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• This Wednesday, 11th June, 05:00 pm, ALFRED, NY | Eli Knapp at Alfred Box of Books Library in Alfred

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