House Of Rain. Tracking A Vanished Civilization Across The American Southwest

CRAIG CHILDS

Publication: Little, Brown and Company, 2006, New York, Boston, London

First edition. 8vo. Black boards, titles stamped in white on the spine, xiv, 496 [1] pp., acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated mostly from photographs, afterword, terminology, bibliography, index. The author examines the unsolved mystery of the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico and built a flourishing culture center that attracted people far and wise. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.