Download or read book Explorer s Guide Tucson A Great Destination written by Kim Westerman and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Tucson and surrounding areas with hundreds of lodging, dining, and recreational recommendations. Explore the friendly, laid-back, border city of Tucson with this comprehensive addition to the Great Destinations series. This place of red deserts, awe-inspiring mountains, and cactus forests is also replete with history: Tucson was originally settled by ancient Native American peoples, Spanish explorers, and Anglo frontiersmen, and their legacy is clearly evident. While the Tucson area holds special appeal for naturalists, hikers, and birdwatchers, there are countless outdoor recreation options available—everything from ballooning to trail riding on horseback—and myriad indoor options like museums and galleries, music and dance performances, too. Tucson’s world-class resorts and spas, along with its top-rated golf courses, make it one of the best relaxation destinations in the country. And there’s no better Sonoran food north of the Mexican border than here in the Old Pueblo. Tucson offers something for everyone. Detailed maps and the author’s selective recommendations make this book a must-have for travelers and residents alike.

Download or read book Early Tucson written by Anne I. Woosley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucson is a history of time and a river. The roots of prehistoric habitation run deep along the Santa Cruz River, reaching back thousands of years. Later the river attracted 17th-century Spanish explorers, who brought military government, the church, and colonists to establish the northern outpost of their New World empire. Later still, American westward expansion drew new settlers to the place called Tucson. Today Tucson is a bustling multicultural community of more than one million residents. These images from the photographic archives of the Arizona Historical Society tell the stories of individuals and cultures that transformed a 19th-century frontier village into a 20th-century desert city.

Download or read book Sonoran Desert Explorers written by Euan Oswald and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sonoran Desert is a magical place. Maybe you're visiting or you live here already and don't even realize! Just outside the suburban neighborhoods of Arizona lives a thriving ecosystem full of diverse life and adventure. This field guide will help little explorers to learn more about the plants and animals and gain an appreciation for an amazing ecosystem just outside the city.

Download or read book Explorer s Guide The Four Corners Region Where Colorado Utah Arizona New Mexico Meet A Great Destination Explorer s Great Destinations written by Sara J. Benson and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorer's Great Destinations puts the guide back into guidebook. This Explorer's Great Destinations guidebook focuses on the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest, including parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.

Download or read book The Planet Mars written by William Sheehan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after the Viking missions of the ’70s, we are finally going back to Mars. No fewer than ten missions are planned for the period between 1996 and 2003, and it is likely that human explorers will follow soon after--perhaps by the middle of the twenty-first century. When they do, they will owe much to the Mars of romance, to the early pioneers whose discoveries and disappointments are brought to life in The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery. In this timely and vividly written account, William Sheehan traces human fascination with Mars back to the naked-eye observers of the planet. He recalls the early telescopic observers who first made out enigmatic markings and polar caps on its surface. Through lively historical anecdotes, he describes in detail the debate over the so-called canals of Mars, which encouraged speculation that the planet might be inhabited. Finally, Sheehan describes more recent theories about the planet, leading up to the present, when unmanned spacecraft have enabled us to make giant strides in exploration. Well documented and sparked with human interest, this book will be a useful companion and guide in interpreting the barrage of headlines about Mars that is sure to come over the next few years. Amateurs will appreciate the contributions that have been made to Martian studies by people like themselves, and professionals will find much original material that has never before been published. The American Mars Global Surveyor is scheduled for launch in November 1996, and soon after the American Mars Pathfinder will make its way toward the red planet. A Russian mission consisting of an orbiter and two landers will be launched in October 1997. These space travelers will write a whole new chapter in the dramatic story of Mars, a planet whose exploration has only just begun. Astronomy Book Club main selection and selections of Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club.

Download or read book HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary

Download or read book Your Complete Guide to the Arizona National Scenic Trail written by Matthew Nelson and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, for the first time, Arizona visitors and residents can set out on any part of the Arizona National Scenic Trail with a 'bible' of the trail's twists and turns, its flora and fauna, and its geology. In an easy-to-use format, Your Complete Guide to the Arizona National Scenic Trail serves up the 800-mile trail, section by section (43 altogether) so that day-hikers as well as thru-hikers can feel confident about the route. Inspired by the magnificence of the scenery, wildlife, and diversity of terrain, this new book is an irreplaceable source for any hiker, mountain biker, or equestrian heading for the Arizona National Scenic Trail.

Download or read book Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naturalists Explorers and Field Scientists in South East Asia and Australasia written by Indraneil Das and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​"Alfred Russel Wallace- His Predecessors and Successors. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-east Asia and Australasia. An International Conference" will be the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of studies on Alfred Russel Wallace and other natural historians, past and present, as well as contemporary research on South-east Asian and Australasian biological diversity. The conference will bring together leading researchers including biologists, ecologists, zoologists, botanists, geologists, anthropologists, social scientists and others from around the world. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: history of biology, biodiversity, anthropology, geology, conservation, ecosystem management, environmental impact assessments, environmental law, environmental policies, landscape management and habitat restoration and management.

Download or read book The Coronado Expedition written by Richard Flint and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as a hardback in 2003.

Download or read book Trappers of the Far West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.

Download or read book A Desert Feast written by Carolyn Niethammer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwest Book of the Year Award Winner Pubwest Book Design Award Winner Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence Tucson menus and how the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Tucsonans ate. White Sonora wheat, tepary beans, and criollo cattle steaks make Tucson’s cuisine unique. In A Desert Feast, you’ll see pictures of kids learning to grow food at school, and you’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to growing and using heritage foods. It’s fair to say, “Tucson tastes like nowhere else.”

Download or read book Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide Journal written by Paul Fiarkoski and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona Bucket List Adventure Guide & Journal takes you on a quest to discover 50 must-see natural wonders in the Grand Canyon State. For each of the 50 places, there's a page that tells you the best time to go, how to get there and how to get permits or passes, if needed. On the opposite page, you check it off your bucket list and journal about your experience. Organized by region: Tourist magnets like Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, and Monument Valley are in the North Region. In North Central, you'll find tips for amazing sites near Sedona like West Fork Oak Creek, Devil's Bridge, and the vortexes. Other regions include the Superstition Mountains, Lower Salt River, Lake Havasu, Ringbolt (Arizona) Hot Springs, Saguaro National Park, Sabino Canyon, and more.

Download or read book The Italian American Experience written by Salvatore J. LaGumina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Ultimate Explorer Field Guide Night Sky written by Howard Schneider and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a guide for beginning stargazers, including sky maps and constellation charts, identification tips, and space facts and jokes.

Download or read book The Explorers of Mars Hill written by William Lowell Putnam and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1894 in Flagstaff, Arizona by Percival Lowell, the Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill is still remembered as the site of numerous important astronomical firsts. The great recessional velocities of galaxies were first observed here in the years immediately before the first world war, a discovery that ultimately led scientists to the realization that our universe is expanding. In 1930, the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered at Lowell by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. This volume is a series of vignettes in the observatory's history, from its foundation and early years under Lowell's guidance to its more modern-day accomplishments. It is richly illustrated with photographs from the Lowell archives.

Download or read book The Best Places for Everything written by Peter Greenberg and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible reference to where to find top-recommended international venues for adventure and learning shares informative facts, industry secrets and expert travel advice for everything from scenic hot-air balloon rides and shark diving to cooking classes and truffle-hunting. Original.