Some compare the Southwest's environmental transitions to what you'd experience traveling from Mexico to Canada. For this book, author Craig Childs trekked over hundreds of miles, observing the transitions close to his Southwest home and discovering something about life. In crystalline prose he relates the landscape to a passage in his life. Scattering his father's ashes in remote Canyon Creek, he reflects:
"I did not think of my father and his ashes as a traveler, ceaselessly flowing from one confluence to the next. Instead, I thought of him as a process. A story being told. I thought of him as a pool of unknown trout and the busted trunk of an alder half sticking up through the water. I thought of him as a raw, deep canyon heaped with boulders and mazes of creek passages -- the canyon he had once promised me. I thought of him as the beginning and the end at once."
Childs' journey of discovery covers Alpine to the Little Blue River; up Mount Graham, a perfectly contained sky island; around Sedona; through Canyon Country; along the lower Colorado River; and through the Sonoran Desert to the Sea of Cortes, with magnificent full-color photography by internationally recognized Arizona Highways photographers illustrating the range of his travels.
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You'll follow a remote stream as it flows from its mountain source, through a rugged canyon, and into the Sonoran Desert. As you do you'll read about transitions of land and of life as author Craig Childs spreads his father's ashes into the same stream where the two often had fished:
"Transformation is a primary element. I see it constantly in landscapes. I spend my life walking through transitions, witnessing them in the spread of forests reaching deserts, mesas leading to canyons to playas to basins. Now I saw it in human life."
You'll trek up a sky island. Instead of water, sky islands are surrounded by valleys and basins that few species of plant, animal, or insect can cross.
Here, Childs observes, "changes in animals, plants, and landscape are so abrupt that if you walk 100 feet, you will cross boundaries that elsewhere come every 200 miles."
You'll reach a place near Sedona where Childs searches for a secret held by the land. "I had passed the final footprints of anyone else and was the first to come through the ice. This precious vacancy urged me forward."
Finally, you'll come to a spot that prompts Childs to tell students: "You will never see anything like this again anywhere. Not on this planet."
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