If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Author and international whitewater river guide Bridget Crocker shares the books that helped inspire her new memoir, 'The River's ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

On November 20, 1959, at a pier in Brooklyn, the writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the M.V. Venimos, a freighter bound for Iquitos, a port town deep in the Peruvian Amazon. He was fresh off the ...

Learn how books are cultural treasures and commercial goods at the Marriott Library. “The Business of Books” exhibit at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library explores the dual nature of books as ...

Photography’s most compelling voices this year looked backward, outward and inward to re-examine how images shape our understanding of the natural world, cultural rituals and the roots of the medium ...