Download or read book Hidden Arizona written by Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gorgeous scenery of Arizona is explored here, from the Grand Canyon to the Mexican border, with walking tours of old Tombstone and historic Flagstaff plus a driving tour of the Apache Trail. Maps. Illustrations.
Download or read book Hidden Arizona written by Stephen Dolainski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-popular Hidden Travel Guides are the adventurous traveller's guide to the treasures waiting to be found just off the beaten path. All of the Hidden guides feature over 20 detailed maps and plenteous illustrations that will lead travellers in the right direction. And as always, these irreplaceable travel books feature informative sidebars and in-depth essays to inform readers about the geography, history and folklore of the region. Suggested itineraries, walking and driving tours and author favourites are all provided within the Hidden guides' pages. Expanded internet information covers websites and email addresses where applicable. A special chapter in Hidden Disneyland features the newly opened California Adventure theme park.
Download or read book Hidden Arizona written by Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on sightseeing, lodging, dining, shopping, outdoor adventures, and "hidden" locales such as gold mines and country inns.
Download or read book Hidden Southwest written by Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Southwest provides lively descriptions of key sights and attractions both on and off the beaten path. Incorporating extensive information on outdoor adventures, Hidden Southwest recommends places to enjoy mountain and desert vistas while soaring in a hot-air balloon, ski the vertical terrain of the southwestern Rockies, and camp along the cool, quiet North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Download or read book Hidden Arizona written by Stephen Dolainski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many imitators, but no equals, the Hidden guides take travellers behind the glitzy tourist facade and introduce them to the real attractions of each destination. Aimed at those with more in mind than simply getting a tan, these guides separate the exceptional from the ordinary-which cultural events and historical sites are worthwhile, where to go for the best outdoor activities, and which local inns are the most romantic and secluded. The Hidden guides are an invaluable resource for the discerning vacationer.
Download or read book Random Tangents Embracing Adventures in Life written by Greg Hawk and published by Desert Roamer Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hawk lies on the bottom of the pool paralyzed he realizes the gypsy was right again. How long can he hold his breath before someone notices? Will he be able to pull through this to finish the remaining predictions? Greg Hawk's memoir of a life's adventure takes a drastic turn at the end of a divorce as he listens to a gypsy lady in New Zealand predict things on the path ahead. Every obstacle on his path in life has put him on another tangent of learning and struggle, at times driving him to the edge of defeat. During these years, death seemed to be a constant companion as he witnessed it, as well as facing it personally. As a soldier, a husband, a divorcee, a partner of a successful construction business in Denver, owner of Fantasy Dive Charters in Australia, to being a treasure hunter in the mountains and desert of the Southwest, he faced many self-imposed challenges." Random Tangents is a celebration of a life well-lived, of obstacles overcome, of the triumph of spirit. And let's face it, sometimes a little luck."
Download or read book Shameful Victory written by John H. M. Laslett and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 8, 1959, the evening news shocked Los Angeles residents, who saw LA County sheriffs carrying a Mexican American woman from her home in Chavez Ravine not far from downtown. Immediately afterward, the house was bulldozed to the ground. This violent act was the last step in the forced eviction of 3,500 families from the unique hilltop barrio that in 1962 became the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers. John H. M. Laslett offers a new interpretation of the Chavez Ravine tragedy, paying special attention to the early history of the barrio, the reform of Los Angeles's destructive urban renewal policies, and the influence of the evictions on the collective memory of the Mexican American community. In addition to examining the political decisions made by power brokers at city hall, Shameful Victory argues that the tragedy exerted a much greater influence on the history of the Los Angeles civil rights movement than has hitherto been appreciated. The author also sheds fresh light on how the community grew, on the experience of individual home owners who were evicted from the barrio, and on the influence that the event had on the development of recent Chicano/a popular music, drama, and literature.
Download or read book Killing the Hidden Waters written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction to the new edition: “I’ll tell you where I went wrong. The faucet in the kitchen always becomes the reality we believe, and the periodic droughts, one of which for much of the nineties savaged the West, remain a fantasy. This happens each and every day as the water roars from the faucet and the skies remain dangerously blue.” —Charles Bowden In the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanity’s relationship with the land. Revisiting his earliest work with a new introduction, “What I Learned Watching the Wells Go Down,” Bowden looks back at his first effort to awaken people to the costs and limits of using natural resources through a simple and obvious example—water. He drives home the point that years of droughts, rationing, and even water wars have done nothing to slake the insatiable consumption of water in the American West. Even more timely now than in 1977, Killing the Hidden Waters remains, in Edward Abbey’s words, “the best all-around summary I’ve read yet, anywhere, of how our greed-driven, ever-expanding urban-industrial empire is consuming, wasting, poisoning, and destroying not only the resource basis of its own existence, but also the vital, sustaining basis of life everywhere.”
Download or read book Narrating Nature written by Mara Jill Goldman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Download or read book Hidden Southwest written by Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hidden Southwest" gets updated with helpful features including author favorites, getaway itineraries, driving and walking tours, plus a complete index of hotels and restaurants. This edition contains triple the number of maps from the previous edition (90 in all), and serves up reviews of the area's indigenous dining scene including 47 fusion Southwest eateries and 25 authentic Mexican restaurants.
Download or read book Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert written by Wendy C. Hodgson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Food Plants of the Sanoran Desert includes not only plants such as gourds and legumes but also unexpected food sources such as palms, lilies, and cattails, all of which have provided nutrition to desert peoples. Each species entry lists recorded names and describes indigenous uses, which often include nonfood therapeutic and commodity applications. The agave, for example, is cited for its use as food and for alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, syrup, fiber, cordage, clothing, sandals, nets, blankets, lances, fire hearths, musical instruments, hedgerows, soap, and medicine, and for ceremonial purposes. The agave entry includes information on harvesting, roasting, and consumption - and on distinguishing between edible and inedible varieties.".
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 Arizona s Historic and Unique Hotels written by Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The criteria for designation as an American Historic Hotel is to be at least fifty-years-old. The first ten hotels are Historic and the next seventeen are notable for unique features. Arizona is a unique state with characteristics not found elsewhere in America or the world. There are beautiful natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon, early Western history is recreated at dude ranches, and there are even historic “treatment” facilities such as the Castle Hot Springs Resort. Historic hotels capture earlier times. This comprehensive guide describes rooms, rates, and amenities. It includes details of movie locations, famous guests, and notable recipes. This history of Arizona includes hotels famous for the “Five C’s of Arizona:” Cattle, Citrus, Climate, Copper, Cotton, and even an extra C for Convalescence since doctors prescribed a visit to Arizona as treatment for many ailments. Guests armed with this knowledge can better enjoy their visit to all parts of Arizona.
Download or read book Hidden Oregon written by Maria Lenhart and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text points the way to convivial breweries in Portland, rustic lodges in the Cascades and clamming along coastal tidal flats. More than 140 restaurants and 150 hotels are reviewed in this updated edition with 22 maps.
Download or read book Hidden Maui written by Ray Riegert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted Hawaii travel expert illuminates the Valley Isle's 120 miles of shoreline, with tips on how to enjoy the beaches, watersports, and land adventures plus unique lodging and dining options. Illustrations & maps.
Download or read book Hidden Baja written by Richard Harris and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris reviews Baja's famed attractions. Then he invites the reader to go further by exploring hidden spots, including small inns and local restaurants in Ensenada, La Paz and Los Cabos. The guide also focuses on adventure travel with detailed information on beaches, parks, and outdoor activities.
