New Trails in Mexico

by Carl Lumholtz

Overview

First described for an Eastern readership the landscape, vegetation, animal life, and cultures found there, and has become a classic of desert exploration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781103732593
Publisher:	BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)
Publication date:	03/31/2009
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.19(d)

Editorial Reviews

Subtitled An account of one year's exploration in north-western Sonora, Mexico, and south-western Arizona, 1909-1910. This reprint of the 1912 Scribner's classic lacks some of the photographs that appeared in the original edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Lumholtz is a cheerful and graphic narrator as well as an intrepid explorer....There is much told about regards Indian life, ancient customs and superstitions, and the like that is little known, and Mr. Lumholtz makes it all, together with his personal adventures, decidedly entertaining as well as informative." —Outlook"His Papago contacts probably considered him and his camera a nuisance, and tribal elders objected to his freewheeling purchases of native crafts and ceremonial items. But even so, Lumholz was enough of an ethnologist to recognize a culture on the threshold of transition from its traditional ways to acceptance of a more Anglo-European lifestyle, and he records in his book much that was being lost." —Journal of Arizona History

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