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“No author writes about our planet better than Craig Childs.

He combines science and adventure to reveal the ways the world moves toward the apocalypse. In “Apocalyptic Planet” Childs explores how the earth has “died” many times, yet keeps coming back. I’ll be there in October, my favorite month to be passing through.” Even if the town is a hell of a lot brighter and busier than it used to be, those are the same big, red walls, the same Behind the Rocks, the same Mill Creek, and the same smell of river,” Childs said. When he was in town he’d sleep on couches, or in a friend’s backyard. In the 1990s he was living out of his truck and working as a guide and outdoor education teachers. When he’s not writing or speaking on NPR’s Morning Edition, he is outside exploring. 3.Ĭhilds is the author of “Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession” and “The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild”. He will share his most recent book “Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the End of the World” with friends and readers at Star Hall on Oct. “Just beautiful paintings of warriors and gods all around it, one of the finest Greek vessels ever found, and it was sold with paperwork that said, you know, this thing is legal.” But an extensive investigation proved that the krater had been looted from an Etruscan tomb in Italy, and in 2008 the Met returned it to the Italian government.Moving to the end of the world, as we know it - Moab Sun News Close “You’d go into the Met and there it was, in its own display case,” Childs says. For example, the famous Euphronios krater, an ancient Greek vessel for mixing wine and water, stood in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for almost 40 years. “What is legal? What is illegal? It really rises to the surface to where I know some archaeologists who want pot hunters dead, and I know pot hunters who want archaeologists dead.” His book follows several families of pot hunters who ran afoul of the government after digging up relics on public land.Īnd many objects now in museums may not be legal, Childs says.

“There’s such an attachment to what is the right and wrong thing to do with these objects,” he says. Craig Childs talks to NPR about his new book “ Finders Keepers“:Īuthor Craig Childs’ new book, Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession, reads almost like a thriller, chock-full of vendettas, suicides and large-scale criminal enterprises dedicated to the multimillion-dollar trade in antiquities.Ĭhilds tells NPR’s Audie Cornish that emotions run high in the world of antiquities.