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Images of America: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Book and Postcards
- Item Number
- 162
- Estimated Value
- 30 USD
- Sold
- 20 USD to MHaines
- Number of Bids
- 9 - Bid History
Item Description
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Author(s): Peggy Pickering Larson, William Ascarza
ISBN: 9780738586717
# of Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
and 15 Historic Postcards
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Book and 15 Historic Postcards
Book Description:
Since 1952, Bill Carr and Arthur Pack, the founders of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, have inspired visitors to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert. When the museum opened it had only four employees. Today it has more than 100 paid employees, nearly 200 docents, and close to 300 volunteers. About 85 percent of the museum is outside, where visitors can enjoy native and the endangered animals exhibited in award-winning naturalistic habitat enclosures, an innovation in exhibitory developed by the museum. Most visitors spend between two and three hours touring the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, but as the museum continues to grow, it is becoming harder and harder to see it all in such a short amount of time. Visitors should plan to come early and stay late!
Author Bio: William Ascarza is the author of the Arcadia publication Tucson Mountains and is also the author of Zenith on the Horizon: An Encyclopedic Look at the Tucson Mountains from A to Z. Peggy Larson is the archivist for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and author of Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: A Scrapbook, Deserts of America, and coauthor with Lane Larson of Deserts of the Southwest.
ABOUT ARCADIA PUBLISHING
Arcadia Publishing is the leading local history publisher in the United States, with a catalog of more than 6,000 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year.
Established in 1993, Arcadia has blended a visionary management approach with the innovative application of state-of-the-art technology to create high-quality historical publications in small local niches.
Arcadia Publishing has expanded its focus on preservation efforts and is now the country’s first major book publisher to achieve the use of 100 percent Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper across its entire book publishing program. Learn more.
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