Melissa Sevigny embroiders the Grand Canyon with plants who become as much characters as the people. She tells a ripping story, full of heart and grit, and a river readers will take in the teeth.
— Craig Childs
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and a Booklist Top of the List winner in nonfiction. A regional indie bestseller. W.W. Norton, 2023.
Mythical River offers a rich, detailed picture of the current state of the single most important and contested resource in the ever-growing West.
— Robert Michael Pyle
A historical sojourn into the story of the Buenaventura, an imaginary river that appeared on maps of the American West for 75 years, paired with an modern-day investigation into the “mythical rivers” that keep us from truly making a home in the arid Southwest. University of Iowa Press, 2016.
[A] must-read for anybody interested in humanity’s quest to understand our origins and place in the universe.
— Dante Lauretta
The story of an upstart laboratory in Tucson that created the field of planetary science and played a vital role in the America’s quest to put a man on the moon. University of Arizona Press, 2016.
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