Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map & Guide, second edition

Rating:
Summary: Nice & useful but a little overpriced
Review: This is a very attractive, quite interesting, annotated map locating many of the spots in Arizona, New Mexico, southern Colorado and southeastern Utah mentioned in Hillerman's Navajo novels. Along with marking these locations, it also offers some useful and interesting bits of pertinent information about them, though I think the design would have allowed for even more historical, cultural and geographic information relevant to the Hillerman books to be included. I suspect the Hillerman readers who probably would find it most useful are those who know at least a little bit about the area and are neither totally ignorant of the distances and geography involved nor are already intimately familiar with the region. (I've probably made about a dozen casual visits to the region, and I still found it fairly interesting.) One glaring lapse is the lack of even a simple grid system on the map to help you locate some of the spots marked by terribly similar-looking icons. And I frankly think that, even at the discounted Amazon price, this map is about $2-$4 more expensive than it really should be.