The Insider's Arizona Guidebook (Travel Arizona Collection: Arizona Highways)

Comprehensive guide to the eintire state. Includes maps, directions, local attractions, a lot of history, two dozen always-scenic and usually historic drives, short hikes, and sidebars alerting travelers to shopping ops and local curiosities. Photography by award-winning Arizona Highways photographers. Enjoyable reading. David Mitchell's writing style is humorous, cosmopolitan. Even armchair travelers will be entertained.

David N. Mitchell, an Iowa native, is a freelance write4r with an M.S. degree in journalism from the University of Iowa and an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps. With the exception of a three-year lapse into retail sporting goods, he has spent more than three decades as a mildly antic reporter and editor for newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the Tucson Citizen and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A former 10-year resident of Tucson, he and his wife Cheryle now live inSanta Fe, where she is editor of the Museum of New Mexico's magazine.