A review by susan
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs

4.0

Interesting look at the Ancestral Pueblan people of Southwestern US/Northwestern Mexico. Presented as a series of short snippets of a journalist's study of the cliff dwelling peoples usually called Anasazi (Childs explains in the book that while this term is often used by archaeologists, it is not the accepted term used by the First Nations people of the area). A long read and parts of it seem a bit repetitive, but that seems to be the point, as he is tracking a "lost" people. Overall a good read if you're interested in the rich pre-European history of the area.