![]() ![]() It’s both of those to some degree but that is nowhere close to the whole story. What was your reason for writing this book?Īrizona is an easy place to caricature, either as a scenic wonderland or a den of political craziness. ![]() The trek is interspersed with incisive essays that pick apart the distinctive cultural landscape of Arizona: the wine-colored pinnacles and complex spirituality of Navajoland, the mind-numbing stucco suburbs, desperate border crossings, legislative skullduggery, extreme politics, billion-dollar copper ventures, dehydrating rivers, retirement kingdoms, old-time foodways, ghosts of old wars, honky-tonk dreamers, murder mysteries, and magical Grand Canyon reveries. ![]() Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journey through redrock country, down canyons, up mesas, and across desert plains to the obscure valley in Mexico that gave the state its enigmatic name. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains. Tom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. ![]()
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