Airstream Country

Neil Mathison is a former naval officer, nuclear engineer, expatriate businessman, and stay-at-home-dad. He has published essays and short stories in the Georgia Review, the Southern Humanities Review, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His collection Volcano: An A to Z and Other Essays about Geology, Geography, and Geo-Travel in the American West won the 2016 Bauhan Publishing Monadnock Essay Collection Prize.

Prologue Genesis Chapter 1. Sinews of a Continent Chapter 2. The Subduction Zone: US Highway 101 Chapter 3. America's Rooftop: US 550, Colorado SR 89, and the Million-Dollar Highway Chapter 4. Following the Fault Line: The Pacific Coast Highway, Westport-Union Landing to the Golden Gate Chapter 5. Yosemite, Mother of California Parks Chapter 6. Desert Highways, Desert Byways Chapter 7. The Colorado Plateau: US 89, 89A, and the Carmel Byway Chapter 8. Volcanic Legacy: US 97, Maryhill to Mount Shasta Chapter 9. Yellowstone Chapter 10. Sky-High Wyoming Chapter 11. Following the Ice: US 2, Coulee City, Washington, to East Glacier, Montana Chapter 12. California Dreaming: Highway 1, the Golden Gate to Malibu Epilogue. The West Acknowledgments

"From the Pacific Coast to the Southwest, up the Rockies and across the Cascades, Airstream Country is a journey of married joy and American history, of geologic time and the serendipity of an unplanned day, of letting each exploration reveal where the next journey needs to take us." - Adrienne Ross Scanlan, author of Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild "Airstream Country provides a fascinating look into our breathtaking Western landscapes and tells the story of the geology that created them. Mathison's vivid writing makes this a book that anyone who lives or travels in the West will love." - Priscilla Long, author of Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? "[Mathison] masterfully blends storytelling with discussions of factual scientific and historical information." - Shari Kelley, senior geophysicist and field geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources