WELDON F. HEALD, Sky Island, HB/DJ (1967) ARIZONA, CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS

MEMOIR, HISTORY, ARIZONA, NATURE, GEOGRAPHY: "Sky Island: A Retreat Into One of Nature's Last Strongholds ... the Spectacular Chiricuhua Mountains," by Weldon F. Heald (D. Van Nostrand Company, 1967). Hardcover w/ dust jacket. 166 pages.

DESCRIPTION (from cover notes): "This is a book with many faces. It is first of all the story of Weldon and Phyllis Heald, who left the crowds and pressures of southern California to live in the still-wide-open spaces of Arizona's southeastern corner. First, they tried cattle raising; "Cattle work for you while you sleep," they had been told. But finding little time for sleeping or anything else, the sold the Flying H Ranch for the smaller, non-working Painted Canyon Ranch in the heart of the Chiricahua Mountains. The book describes and illustrates with more than seventy photographs and line drawings, one of the last sections of "wilderness" in the United States. The Chiricahuas are a huge, living natural history museum with more varied wildlife, vegetation, and climate than any other area of comparable size on the continent. ... In a sort of cosmopolitan enclave complete with modern conveniences, the Healds played host to more than five hundred visitors from all over the world -- scientists of every persuasion, naturalists, climbers and campers, who came to pursue their particular specialty in this remarkable area."

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings.

Book is in VG+ condition (faint yellowing). Jacket is Good (price clipped; open tears -- about 1/8 inch deep -- along top and bottom edges of spine; 1/2-inch closed tear near center of top edge of back jacket; chipped on both top edges of folds of flaps; 1/8-inch closed tear on bottom edge of front jacket; Mylar jacket cover added by seller).
 

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