Mapping Utah: Love and War in the Wilderness - Paperback

by Denny Wilkins (Author)

Fleeing a stifling job and relationship in Seattle, thirty-year-old Kara follows the prompting of a mysterious map into the slickrock majesty of Utah. Noah, a licensed pilot, adores the solitude of his hermitic existence in Greasewood Draw, where he battles the destruction of delicate wildlife areas by dropping paint bombs from an ultralight plane onto off-road vehicles. Jack Nash hauls in a fortune for his environmentally immoral ORV expeditions and wants Noah dead. These three lives collide under the staggering beauty of the desert landscape, where passion and grit battles greed and power, and only one side will survive.

Author Biography

Denny Wilkins professes journalism at a small, private university in the Northeast. He has climbed, kayaked, photographed, skied, and otherwise meandered aimlessly through the American West for decades. He has degrees in geology, environmental studies, and communication - and has tried to make use of them as a co-founder of the cultural blog ScholarsandRogues.com.