FalconGuides

David B. Williams's field guide to the ecology and geology of the Colorado Plateau. Readable, thorough, and organized by habitat. The kind of book that transforms a drive through Moab into a geology lesson you actually want to take.

Ed Gillet kayaked solo from Monterey to Hawaii in 1987 — 2,200 miles of open Pacific, no support boat. The most audacious solo ocean crossing by human power ever attempted. Almost nobody knows about it.