Take off with National Geographic photographer Adriel Heisey on an aerial odyssey over the Sonoran desert, and prepare to be transformed by the journey. The Sonoran Desert, which straddles the Arizona-Mexico borders, is like no other place on earth. In Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey, writer/photographer and ultralight pilot Adriel Heisey helps us see and appreciate it in a whole new light. Heisey's astonishing aerial images reveal a rugged landscape that is at once intimate and infinitely varied. His sensual prose puts us in the pilot's seat and invites us to experience the desert from his unique perspective.
"I have a watcher in me who is immune to all danger. As I rapidly ascend, I watch the way the horizon draws back like a vast iris, gently opening. I watch as nearby mountaintops sink into the earth while beyond them distant peaks arise in a slow, revelatory circle-dance. The land below me is revealing itself with disarming candor, and my thoughts fall silent in the presence of so much nakedness. In flight, I have a sense of being everywhere at once."--from Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey.
