Reviews for Arizona Wild and Free

The average rating for Arizona Wild and Free based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-17 00:00:00 Donald Tomlinson I look at a lot of the Arcadia history guides, and they're all over the map in quality. This is one of the good ones. I wondered if the topic might be too narrow -- a single lighthouse on the central California coast -- but the authors, both active in preserving the old lighthouse, do not disappoint. The book opens with a nice, detailed map -- after the cool 1931 cover photo, and the White Rock photo frontispiece -- and runs through area history, construction photos, the glory years, the earthquakes -- the lighthouse lost its top in a major quake circa 1949 -- the automation around 1975, the biological research station, and the change to BLM administration in 2001, with big plans for restoration and better public access. Very cool stuff, nice photos, crisp text. Bravo! Incidentally, one beef with all the Arcadia books -- no index! C'mon Arcadia -- spring for a few extra bucks, and a few extra pages, for a much more valuable reference book. How hard can it be? You charge enough for the things....

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-29 00:00:00 Lauren Conrad This is a coffee table book, but anyone who likes India, is from India, has roots in India, or just likes kites should consider this book. My Sanskrit guru encouraged me to buy this book, but I didn't want another picture book, so I procrastinated its purchase. And then one day I was at his house and it was there on his coffee table. So I glanced through it. Wow! The first picture I saw was of a few men stnading with their horses on the desert, butas I looked at the long shadow of the sunrise, i realized that they were camels not horses. I turn to the next page, and it was an areal view of a camael market in Jaipur I think. But, tens of hundreds of camels peppered the desert, it was awe inspiring. So it is not neceesarily a goodread, but a marvlous photography book.