Thu, Mar 27
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Cyril Christo & Mary Wilkinson, Wonder and The World: A Childhood Among the Species
A powerful exploration of nature’s beauty and fragility, "Wonder and the World" captures the awe-inspiring connection between humanity and the wild.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 27, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Order Wonder and the World online from CWB here ($53.00, hardcover) or call the store to order (505) 988-4226.
What kind of world do we want to bequeath to our children? What planet, what future do we want to pass on to them? In his latest book, Cyril Christo poses the most fundamental of all questions. Together with his wife Marie Wilkinson and their son Lysander, Christo has been seeking out the wonders of this world for more than 40 years and across all continents.
During their travels to the Inuit or the first peoples of Africa, they come into contact with communities who seem to have everything that modern, technological society has lost: time, family and an almost inexhaustible kindness towards strangers. The photographers present the wonder of unspoiled nature in their book, captured in powerful duo-tone images that provide…