The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today—a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face—off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig Childs captures the moment so vividly that he...