Title: Cactus country,
Authors: Abbey, Edward, 1927-; Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time-Life Books
Year: 1973
Subjects: Natural history Sonoran Desert.
Abstract: This compelling new volume in the Time-Life Books American Wilderness series takes you on an incredible journey through a wild, unsettled region covering some 69,000 square miles of southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Geographers call it the Sonoran Desert. To ordinary people it is Cactus Country. Your guide is Edward Abbey, a former park ranger and self-proclaimed desert rat. With him you'll travel the length of this lonely, primitive and strangely beautiful land. You'll scale a sacred peak, explore abandoned silver mines, climb sand dunes and volcanic craters. You'll visit the Superstition Mountains, where touchy old prospectors still search for a legendary treasure of gold buried in a giant rockpile. You'll journey to the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument west of Tucson and the Papago Indian Reservation and the Kofa Mountains. You'll travel across the lava beds and volcanic field of the Pinacate region that the Mexicans call El Gran Desierto, the great desert.^
Contents: The real desert : a nature walk to a foothills canyon -- The mountains of superstition -- The anatomy of a colossus -- Winters in Organ Pipe : the lavish, frugal cacti -- The sacred peak : dreams of desert treasure -- Wild palms and gold mines : the water misers -- Down to the Sea of Cortés -- The ancient dust : rock, sand and solitude.