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Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona is a work of literary nonfiction by journalist and author Tom Zoellner. Built around Zoellner walking the length of Arizona on the Arizona Trail, the book combines travel writing, personal reflection, historical inquiry, and cultural criticism. The journey runs from the Utah border toward the Mexican border, giving the book a physical route through redrock country, high country, canyons, desert plains, borderlands, and urban edges. Rather than using the hike only as an outdoor adventure narrative, Zoellner treats it as a structure for examining Arizona as a place of beauty, contradiction, conflict, and deep historical layering. The book includes essays on Navajoland, suburban expansion, water stress, border crossings, copper mining, politics, retirement communities, old foodways, and the Grand Canyon. Its purpose is not to simplify Arizona into a regional stereotype, but to show how landscape, history, economy, and identity shape one another in a state often misunderstood from outside and contested from within.