House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest - Couverture rigide

Childs, Craig

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316608173 ISBN 13 : 9780316608176

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company, 2007

Synopsis

The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments - in agriculture, in art, in commerce, in architecture, and in engineering - were astounding, rivaling those of the Mayans in distant Central America. By the thirteenth century, however, the Anasazi were gone from Chaco. Vanished. What was it that brought about the rapid collapse of their civilization? Was it drought? pestilence? war? forced migration? mass murder or suicide? For many years conflicting theories have abounded. Craig Childs draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as on a lifetime of adventure and exploration in the most forbidding landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Craig Childs is a naturalist, adventurer, desert ecologist, and frequent contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown and Company
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316608173
• ISBN 13: 9780316608176
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Terminal Video; n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; Italie