Book Description
Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture, including oddball curiosities, local legends, crazy characters, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Author : Wesley Treat
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1402739389
Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture, including oddball curiosities, local legends, crazy characters, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Author : Charles A. Stansfield Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493045792
UFOs, ghost trains, and El Chupacabra figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Grand Canyon State. From the arid desert to the population centers of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, come a variety of stories and legends, including the phantom of Jack the Ripper, Sedona’s mysterious magnetic fields, and ghostly—and homicidal—guardians of the Lost Dutchman Mine.
Author : Sam Lowe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493023055
Arizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’s history, like the story of Pearl Hart or the ghosts that live in the Hotel Vendome. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Arizona history.
Author : Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811736202
From the arid desert to the cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona is rich in tales of the paranormal.
Author : Heather Schafer Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Alphabet books
ISBN : 9780976352273
Whether it's Andre the aardvark or Zena the zorilla, each of these twenty-six unusual animals are part of a colorful A-Z adventure. Let the journey begin!
Author : Christine Bailey
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1581579357
Among mountains and desert, take in one spectacular natural wonder after another and capture the adventure of Arizona. Imagine all the adventures you’ll have in Arizona— touring the mountains and red deserts, seeing one spectacular natural wonder after another: the Grand Canyon, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument...Discover the art galleries, museums, resorts, and cuisine that help make Phoenix and Scottsdale such hot destinations.
Author : Paul Soderberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 9781897278499
Arizona is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters: * Mesa's founder was the great-grandfather of Fay Wray, star of King Kong (1933) * The place to go for great burgers in Kayenta is also the place to learn about the Navajo Code Talkers * Phoenix native Joan Ganz Cooney created Sesame Street * Irving Berlin wrote the greatest Christmas song of all time--''White Christmas''--while sitting beside a swimming pool in Phoenix * One of the seven species of horned lizards found in Arizona is the horny toad, which squirts blood from its eyes when frightened * Chandler holds an annual Ostrich Festival--one of the Top 10 Unique Festivals in the United States * The only two communities in the U.S. where postal workers still deliver mail by mule are both in the Grand Canyon--in Havasu Falls, where the Havasupai tribe has lived for 800 years, and in Phantom Ranch, a resort village * The ''Jojo's'' mentioned in the Beatles' song ''Get Back'' was a popular bar in Tucson * And more.
Author : Wesley Treat
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402766879
"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
Author : Sam Lowe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1461747341
Mysteries and Legends of Arizona explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Arizona history.
Author : Alberto Álvaro Ríos
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816541035
In Alberto Álvaro Ríos’s new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection brings twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own, adding warmth and humor to this continually surprising communal narrative. The stories take place in the mid-twentieth century, in the high desert near the border—a stretch of land generally referred to as the Pimería Alta—an ancient passage through the desert that connected the territory of Tucson in the north and Guaymas and Hermosillo in the south. The United States is off in the distance, a little difficult to see, and, in the middle of the century, not the only thing to think about. Mexico City is somewhere to the south, but nobody can say where and nobody has ever seen it. Ríos has created a whimsical yet familiar town, where brightly unique characters love fiercely and nurture those around them. The people in A Good Map of All Things have secrets and fears, successes and happiness, winters and summers. They are people who do not make the news, but who are living their lives for the long haul, without lotteries or easy answers or particular luck. Theirs is the everyday, with its small but meaningful joy. Whether your heart belongs to a small town in Mexico or a bustling metropolis, Alberto Álvaro Ríos has crafted a book that is overflowing with comfort, warmth, and the familiar embrace of a tightly woven community.