Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River

More than a century after John Wesley Powell first ran the Green River, the author spent eight seasons floating through Desolation Canyon in Utah with her husband, who worked as a river ranger for the federal government. Over those years the canyon became a kind of home to her. This book collects her observations of the landscape, its geology, its natural life, and the human history that has passed along its banks. It moves as freely as the river does, shifting between close attention to small details and broader reflections on wilderness. It is a portrait of a place known through long, repeated contact rather than a single visit.