Manzanares (river) protected as the "Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares", a nature reserve which is recognised as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. The Manzanares flows in a south-eastern direction from its source, and passes through the medieval town of Manzanares el Real where it is dammed to form the Santillana reservoir, one of the most important water supplies for the capital. The river then takes a southern direction and enters the Monte del Pardo, an ecologically valuable area on the edge of Madrid. The river is canalised where it passes through the built-up areas of the city. As at
A River Runs Through It (novel) still in print a hardcover edition issued in Chicago by the University of Chicago Press in 1989 with . The collection of short stories with the novella, "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" is issued as a paperback by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 with . The small anthology contains two other stories, also partly autobiographical and which precede the events of "River": "Logging and Pimping and 'Your pal, Jim'" and "USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky". During 1977 the Pulitzer Prize committee for fiction (aka "fiction jury") recommended "A