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- Chasing Arizona: One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Arizona Press
summary
It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way.
Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deserts, and climbs the tallest mountain, all while visiting the people, places, and treasures that make Arizona great.
In the vivid, lyrical, often humorous prose the author is known for, each destination weaves together stories of history, nature, and people, along with entertaining side adventures and excursions. Maps and forty-four of the author’s detailed pencil drawings illustrate the journey.
Chasing Arizona is unlike any book of its kind. It is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, a road-warrior narrative. It is a quest to see and experience as much of Arizona as possible. Through intimate portrayals of people and place, readers deeply experience the Grand Canyon State and at the same time celebrate what makes Arizona a wonderful place to visit and live.
Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deserts, and climbs the tallest mountain, all while visiting the people, places, and treasures that make Arizona great.
In the vivid, lyrical, often humorous prose the author is known for, each destination weaves together stories of history, nature, and people, along with entertaining side adventures and excursions. Maps and forty-four of the author’s detailed pencil drawings illustrate the journey.
Chasing Arizona is unlike any book of its kind. It is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, a road-warrior narrative. It is a quest to see and experience as much of Arizona as possible. Through intimate portrayals of people and place, readers deeply experience the Grand Canyon State and at the same time celebrate what makes Arizona a wonderful place to visit and live.
Table of Contents
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- Map of Arizona
- p. xvi
- The Insanity of Bright Ideas
- pp. 1-5
- January: Turquoise
- Week 2. Pancho Villa’s Ride: Douglas
- pp. 13-20
- February: Cactus Wren
- March: Paloverde
- April: Saguaro Blossom
- May: Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly
- Week 18. Fallen from the Sky: Box Canyon
- pp. 125-130
- Week 19. Digging Graves: Patagonia
- pp. 131-136
- June: Apache Trout
- Week 22. Risen from the Ashes: Phoenix
- pp. 151-159
- Week 24. Chubasco: Lemmon Rock Lookout
- pp. 168-174
- July: Arizona Treefrog
- Week 28. Wedding Day: Sweet Child of Mine
- pp. 197-199
- August: Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
- September: Petrified Wood
- Week 36. Lost in a Vortex: Sedona
- pp. 249-254
- October: Ringtail
- Week 42. The Rise of Arizona Wine: Willcox
- pp. 286-288
- Week 43. Still a Population of One: Ruby
- pp. 289-295
- November: Bola Tie
- Week 46. A Living Monument: Canyon de Chelly
- pp. 305-309
- December: Colt .45 Single Action Army Revolver
- Week 51. Arizona’s Christmas City: Prescott
- pp. 338-342
- Week 52. Blitzkrieg on the Border: Naco
- pp. 343-346
- Afterword. New Year’s Eve: Bisbee
- pp. 347-350
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 351-352
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 353-356
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816531721
Related ISBN(s)
9780816528929
MARC Record
OCLC
899007027
Pages
381
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-16
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015