Western Rivers

In this risograph-printed book, the ANEMONE Maps Department has combined the USGS hydrology dataset and mountain shading from the EU's Copernicus digital elevation models, along with handwritten labels, to make something entirely new.

Each of the eight maps explores a different river basin and highlights the twists and turns of its waterways in detail, covering the land between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains: the Coastal Ranges, Salish Sea, Columbia Basin, the Klamath and interior Cascade basins, the Sierra Nevada, Los Angeles-Mojave, Colorado Basin, and the Great Basin. Each map includes a shaded topography background, so that you can get a sense for how the rivers have shaped the landscape. Accompanying essays add color to the natural and human worlds of these rivers.

Maps, writing: Adam Greenhall
Design, editing: Amelia Greenhall