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Author
Publisher
Arizona Highways Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
176 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 28 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arizona's rugged and diverse landscape is one of Earth's most magnificent and exotic areas. In this book, beset with full-color photographs of the area, the multitalented Childs (Grand Canyon: Time Below the Rim, Crossing Paths), a naturalist, former river guide, backpacker, National Public Radio commentator, sketcher, and adventurer, takes the reader from Four Corners (where Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado meet) southward through the constantly...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
ix, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Craig Childs is lost. In a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing else is alive--barely any vegetation, few signs of wildlife, scant traces of any human precursors in this landscape--Childs and his friend Dirk undertake a fortnight's journey. With as much food and gear as they can carry, and little else but their wiles to help them traverse the inhospitable, unmappable terrain, the two men assume the life-or-death challenge...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest relates to the Anasazi, the native peoples who by the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico) and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments--in agriculture, in art, in commerce, in architecture and engineering--were astounding, rivaling those of the Mayans in distant...
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