Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Explore Books in Aspen recommends books about the life of a river, 17 brushes with death and a London houseboat community. By Robert MacfarlaneW. W. Norton & Company$31.99May 2025PurchaseFrom the publisher: Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Wherever you fall on the legal question of what rights our rivers deserve, you’ll surely never look at a river the same way again. Here, O’Farrell stitches together these discrete encounters to tell the story of her entire life.

Source: Daily Sun March 01, 2026 10:58 UTC