Last Water on the Devil's Highway - A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas

Informationen zum Autor Bill Broyles is the author of "Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: Where Edges Meet and Our Sonoran Desert!" and co-editor of "Dry Borders: Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert." Thomas E. Sheridan holds a joint appointment as professor of Anthropology at the Southwest Center and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology! Gary Paul Nabhan is Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University. Mary Charlotte Thurtle was the field director for the Tinajas Altas Archaeological Survey in 1998. Klappentext The Devil's Highway—El Camino del Diablo—crosses hundreds of miles and thousands of years of Arizona and Southwest history. The most famous waterhole along the way is Tinajas Altas! or High Tanks. An expert cast of authors describes! narrates! and explains the human and natural history of this special place in a thorough and readable account. Addressing the latest archaeological and historical findings! they reveal why Tinajas Altas was so important.

About the author

Bill Broyles is the author of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: Where Edges Meet and Our Sonoran Desert, and co-editor of Dry Borders: Great Natural Reserves of the Sonoran Desert. Thomas E. Sheridan holds a joint appointment as professor of Anthropology at the Southwest Center and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, Gary Paul Nabhan is Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University. Mary Charlotte Thurtle was the field director for the Tinajas Altas Archaeological Survey in 1998.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Broyles, Bill/ Hartmann Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Gary Paul Nabhan, Gary Paul (University of Arizona) Nabhan, Thomas E Sheridan, Thomas E. Sheridan, Mary Charlotte Thurtle
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780816530830
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3083-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Southwest Center Series; Southwest Center (Paperback); Southwest Center; Southwest Center (Paperback); Southwest Center Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales