Sonora

<p>Now available in paperback this informal account of the people culture land and history of Sonora Mexico describes blistering deserts alpine mountains tropical river valleys and arid coastlines and relates the lives and stories of cattlemen lumbermen fishermen weavers cobblers musicians bootleggers and Indians. The author's curiosity extends to the weaving of Nácori hats the distillation of fiery bacanora and the utility of the tegua the Sonoran cowboy boot. Sonora is also a record of painful twentieth-century change of human dislocation from rural villages to industrial cities and the relentless destruction of Sonoran forests jungles deserts and rivers. A regular visitor for over thirty years the author provides a colorful portrait of the Sonora of the past present and future.</p>