House of Rain

House of Rain
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 0759518572
ISBN-13 : 9780759518575
Rating : 4/5 (575 Downloads)

Book Synopsis House of Rain by : Craig Childs

Download or read book House of Rain written by Craig Childs and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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