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Underwater photographer Andrew Zimmerman, data artist Nadieh Bremer, and artist/designer Julie Beeler.

AJ 41 • Recommended Reading Recommended Reading Six books worth your time — animal sex, a vanishing forest’s carbon, desert climbing, a trail haunting, shifting baselines, and homes shaped by the sea By Stephen Casimiro Issue 41 Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex Perrin Roosevelt Ireland · WW Norton · 2026 … Read more

The Casimiro Ford-LTD-Station-Wagon Cross-Continental Expedition of 1973 was by any measure an epic undertaking: a journey from the Atlantic Seaboard to the western edge of North America and back, some eight thousand miles of overlanding in the hottest part of the year, with no air conditioning except windows and a driver who refused to lower … Read more

AJ 33 • Recommended Reading Recommended Reading By Emily White Issue 33 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World Ada Limón · Milkweed Editions · 2024 Edited by Ada Limón, the twenty-fourth poet laureate of the United States, this anthology showcases fifty never-before-published poems by contemporary award-winning poets. It presents odes to trees, reflections … Read more

AJ 18 • Resources Resources Issue 18 Beautiful Structure Senior contributing photographer Forest Woodward grew up not far from where he built his treehouse, in southern Appalachia. He was raised and homeschooled by alternative-minded parents who encouraged his freedom to explore from early on. At ten, he began formal study of photography and at twelve … Read more

AJ 22 • Resources Resources Issue 22 Never Swim Alone* At ten miles, the Strait of Gibraltar is the shortest of the Oceans Seven swims, though with more than three hundred ships passing through each day, it’s one of the most challenging. The rest are the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, twenty-one miles; … Read more

It was hot on the morning of the day my friend Scott tried to kill me and it was even hotter in the afternoon when it became clear he would, despite a great effort, fail. The year was 1993. Scott was an absurdly strong cyclist. He was the first person I knew who had a … Read more

Near the end of a really long day deep in the Needles District of Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, Sinuhe Xavier and I were heading out, heading north, leaving the Chesler Park region behind. We’d hiked the shadowed stone corridors of the Joint Trail, which isn’t a slot canyon but feels like one, where shoulders brush … Read more