University of Chicago Press

If anyone is qualified to weave a substantive examination of water challenges in the West with a tale of one woman’s solo journey down the length the mighty Green River, it’s journalist and paddler Heather Hansman. Using her river adventure as the story’s framework, Hansman explores the myriad of challenges surrounding water in the West, providing just enough data and detail to educate, without losing the reader to the mind-numbing jargon that defines most water-related writing.

Maps from fiction, fantasy, and imagination — Tolkien's Middle-earth, Stevenson's Treasure Island, and dozens of others. Lewis-Jones curates the cartography of places that exist only in books.

Maclean's investigation of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire that killed thirteen smokejumpers in Montana. Written in his eighties, published posthumously. The prose is as precise as his earlier masterpiece, A River Runs Through It, and the subject is more devastating — young men outrun by fire on a steep hillside.