Where the Rain Children Sleep: A Sacred Geography of the Colorado Plateau

by Michael Engelhard

Inspired by a year of hiking 120 desert canyons, Where the Rain Children Sleep is nature writing in the best tradition of Edward Abbey, Ellen Meloy, and Craig Childs. Much more than one man's memoir of his time in these canyons, it is an eclectic, well-informed, critical, and in-depth collection punctuated by flashes of humor and whimsy. The vivid thread connecting these essays is the Navajo concept of a "sacred geography." Michael Engelhard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803229909
• ISBN13: 9780803229907
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"