Native Roads: The Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations - Softcover

Kosik, Fran

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9781887896160: Native Roads: The Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations

Synopsis

A wonderful guide book for traveling through the Hopi and Navajo nations. This book has information about both the history and the people of the area. Also contains hotel and restaurant listings, maps and other resources. b&w illustrations and photos, with color photographs of Navajo rugs identified by area of origin.

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Review

Some Arizona books have these large sections dotted off--the Indian reservations the authors think you needn't know about--but this book takes you there. It's informed, pragmatic, and refreshingly free of hype. The "Important Things to Know" chapter includes Navajo creation stories along with health precautions and how to buy a Navajo rug. From Four Corners National Monument to the Grand Canyon, Fran Kosik gives needed survival advice on motels, camping, restaurants (and gas stations, which aren't as plentiful as you may think), interspersed with scholarly archeological, geographical anthropological information, and sensitive attention to the people who still live there.

About the Author

Fran Kosik has lived in and traveled throughout the Navajo and Hopi Nations for more than 30 years. A registered nurse with an M.A. in public health, Kosik now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, with her husband and daughter.

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