NOVEL STUDY

Krakauer’s Into the Wild "explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons."

In Heather Hansman's Down River, "a journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West."