In Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places—the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he is drawn to it. Childs tracks a broad territory: the Sierra Madre mountains in northern New Mexico, the canyons of Utah, the White Mountain Apache Reservation, a deserted island in the Sea of Cortez. In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Secret Knowledge of Water, Childs reconfirms his singular voice and discovers the passion and grace of desolate places.