Adventuring in Arizona [Paperback]

John Annerino (Author)

Book Description

Series: Adventuring in Arizona | Publication Date: January 1, 2003

From mountain heights to canyon depths, Arizona offers more opportunities for adventure than most people would contemplate in a lifetime. John Annerino has experienced more Arizona adventures than most, and he shares them in this book. It features 50 excursions—canyoneering, trekking, climbing, river running, and even car touring—plus an overview of geology, ecology, and climate, and an introduction to Native American tribes and state history. Maps, travel notes, and planning essentials such as water sources and supply points help make this an indispensable guide for outdoor excitement.

Editorial Reviews

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"John Annerino is almost overqualified to author an adventure book about Arizona. This book should be required reading for anyone remotely interested in exploring Arizona by foot, boat, vehicle, or reading glasses. It will be a trip you will never forget."
-- Southwest Book Views

"An engaging writer and veteran explorer, John Annerino sketches the natural and human history of the Grand Canyon state, before embarking on car tours, river expeditions, canyoneering, hiking and mountain climbing. If you have room in your pack for only one Arizona guidebook, this should be it."
-- Journal of Arizona History

"This book is an authoritative look at one of the most adventure-laden states anywhere by a man who knows both the state and how to operate in the outback."
-- The Arizona Republic

"Adventuring in Arizona. True to its name, this excellent guide lists back-road driving tours, hiking trails, river trips, and climbing routes through the state's most spectacular country. Includes history and travel tips."
-- Arizona, Moon Handbooks

"Passion of Annerino an Adventuring Epic. Adventuring in Arizona is not merely a guide book with lists and maps and how-to's of hikes, auto trips, river runs and peaks. It's an epic in itself, drawing from history, anecdote, and the magic and beauty of the land itself." 
-- Tucson Citizen

"Anyone with the slightest interest in Arizona's natural and cultural history, whether an active or armchair adventurer, should have in their library John Annerino's excellent Adventuring in Arizona. . . . All guidebooks should be like this one: making learning and discovery as important as destination in all adventures." —Desert Skies "The best guidebook to the state's wild places." —Tucson Weekly "A fast-moving blend of history and trekking advice." —Detroit Free Press "An authoritative look at one of the most adventure-laden states anywhere by a man who both knows the state and how to operate in the outback. . . . One of the things we like best is Annerino's love for the history and geology of Arizona. He not only goes to great lengths to tell you of the prospectors, explorers and mountain men, but he also tells you the lay of the land and why it got that way. For those wanting to travel the outback, this should be a standard reference work." —Arizona Republic

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Images from this photo collection were featured in:
* Arizona: A Photographic Tribute, Centennial Edition
* Arizona Highways Magazine
* Phoenix Magazine
* Travel & Leisure Magazine

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Product Details

• Paperback: 445 pages
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816523193
• ISBN-13: 978-0816523191
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,909,867 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John is pleased to share the exciting news two of his new photography and literature books were published on January 24, 2012: the "Land if Enchantment's" 100 Year Centennial Edition, New Mexico: A Photographic Tribute; and the "Grand Canyon State's" 100 Year Centennial Edition, Arizona: A Photographic Tribute. His third new book, The Virgin of Guadalupe: Art and Legend, will be published by Gibbs Smith on March 1, 2012. His landmark photograph commemorating the World Trade Center was recently published in the 2011, 10th Anniversary editions of the New York Times No. 1 bestselling books, LIFE One Nation, America Remembers September 11, 2001, and LIFE In the Land of the Free. The iconic image and others can be viewed online at www.johnannerinophotography.com. John Annerino's indelible photographs were published previously in the New York Times No. 1 bestselling book, America 24/7: 24 Hours, 7 Days, Extraordinary Images of One American Week, and the Grand Canyon state sequel Arizona 24/7: Amazing Photographs of an Extraordinary State. John is the author and photographer of many books, among them 17 distinguished photographic essays and thirty-two single-artist calendars, including Wild & Scenic Arizona, Wild & Scenic New Mexico, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and the award winning books Indian Country, Desert Light, Grand Canyon Wild, Vanishing Borderlands, Canyons of the Southwest, The Wild Country of Mexico, and Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo, (acclaimed by the Rodeo Hall of Fame). John's credits include Arizona Highways Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, LIFE, Newsweek, People, Scientific American, Time, Travel & Leisure, and many prestigious clients worldwide. In his quest to explore the renowned landscapes and secret places of the Great Southwest and Old Mexico with a camera and pen over last 25 years, John has climbed its hallowed mountains, rafted its wild and scenic rivers, journeyed on foot through its mystical chasms, and crossed its alluring deserts. He has photographed and come to know the region's Native peoples and ceremonies, Western cowboys and traditions, and Spanish heritage and celebrations. John Annerino is a member of The Authors Guild, New York. Visit his illustrated bio online at www.johnannerino.com.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best., November 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Adventuring in Arizona (A Sierra Club Travel Guide) (Paperback)

Of all the general guidebooks I know on the Arizona outdoors, the best for hard-won information is John Annerino's ADVENTURING IN ARIZONA. A longtime resident of Prescott and Tucson, Annerino has been tooling about on the state's dirt roads and hiking trails for a couple of decades now, and he's covered a huge swath of territory firsthand. He takes in well-known destinations, from the Grand Canyon to South Mountain, but, more to the point here, he offers mile-by-mile instructions for more remote places like the Superstition Mountains and the Lechuguilla Desert. One of the treks he proposes, not for the faint of heart or easily sun-stroked, retraces Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino's route across southern Arizona's Camino del Diablo - a fitting name meaning "Devil's Highway," a route that comes the closest Arizona has to compete with Death Valley for sheer hellishness. Water is nearly non-existent along the route, and those attempting it should bring along at least four gallons per person per day, a luxury Kino could not enjoy. Many available guidebooks uncritically repeat long-obsolete information on the location of the Camino's few watering holes. Annerino went out to the place himself - in summer, no less - to map them on foot, an act that may well save a few lives some day. -New Times

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best single guide book to outdoors Arizona!, January 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Adventuring in Arizona (A Sierra Club Travel Guide) (Paperback)

'Adventuring in Arizona' takes the reader on a grand tour of the magnificent Arizona wilderness. No other guidebook introduces the wild country of this great state so well. The author, a Western outdoorsman of long experience, covers the Grand Canyon and every other well-known scenic attraction in depth. Better yet, he also describes dozens of undiscovered, out-of-the-way jewels like the Pine Mountain Wilderness. From car camping to whitewater rafting to technical rock climbing, this book has it all-- and thanks to the lively writing and many nuggets of historical and scientific fact, it makes an entertaining cover-to-cover read for those who only dream of the Arizona backcountry

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!-Detroit Free Press, October 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Adventuring in Arizona (A Sierra Club Travel Guide) (Paperback)

"A superb new guidebook called ADVENTURING IS ARIZONA is a fast-moving blend of history and trekking advice for canyoneers, climbers and river rafters. Author John Annerino even can tell you, mile by mile, how to see the Grand Canyon in virtual solitude.