The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light

by Craig Childs Torrey House Press 5/27/2025, hardcover SKU: 9798890920188   At a time when most people on Earth live in regions of acute light pollution, Craig Childs takes us on a journey to rediscover the awesome power of night itself. Seeking not the absence of light, but the presence of the universe, master storyteller Craig Childs sets out to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. A fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, Childs guides us on a quest to rediscover the heavens and to ask: "What does it do to us to not see the night sky?" The Wild Dark is at once an adventure story, a field guide, and a celebration of the awesome power of night itself, inviting us to look up and to look inward, eyes wide and sparkling with stars. Reviews: "Enchanting, mournful yet hopeful. Childs ruminates almost poetically on the ageless use of stellar navigation by all manner of species, from birds to grass