Sonora: An Intimate Geography (University of Arizona Southwest Center Book) - Hardcover

Yetman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826317014 ISBN 13: 9780826317018

Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Now available in paperback, this informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, describes blistering deserts, alpine mountains, tropical river valleys, and arid coastlines, and relates the lives and stories of cattlemen, lumbermen, fishermen, weavers, cobblers, musicians, bootleggers, and Indians. The author's curiosity extends to the weaving of Nácori hats, the distillation of fiery bacanora, and the utility of the tegua, the Sonoran cowboy boot. Sonora is also a record of painful twentieth-century change of human dislocation from rural villages to industrial cities and the relentless destruction of Sonoran forests, jungles, deserts, and rivers. A regular visitor for over thirty years, the author provides a colorful portrait of the Sonora of the past, present, and future.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

David Yetman

This informal account explores the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico. The author describes blistering deserts, alpine mountains, tropical river valleys, and arid coastlines and relates the lives and stories of cattlemen, lumbermen, fishermen, weavers, cobblers, musicians, bootleggers, and Indians. His curiosity extends to the weaving of Nacori hats, the distillation of fiery bacanora, and the utility of teguas, the Sonoran cowboy boot. Sonora is also a record of painful twentieth-century change -- of human dislocation from rural villages to industrial cities and the relentless destruction of Sonoran forests, jungles, deserts, and rivers. A regular visitor for thirty years, the author provides a colorful portrait of the Sonora of the past, present, and future.

From the Inside Flap:

This informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, is now available in paperback.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0826317014
• ISBN 13: 9780826317018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Illustrator: Mirocha Paul