Sky Determines: an Interpretation of the Southwest [Signed]

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1965. Revised and enlarged. Red cloth octavo with black stamping; tan pictorial dust jacket with red and black text; xiv, 391 pages: illustrations; 21 cm A near fine copy; a dash of sunning to upper edge of boards and a wee bit of toning to spine; author signature on title page; pages clean and binding tight; a very good (+) DJ with small (>1in) closed tears at head of spine, front corner folds and on rear upper edge, now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

Out of print. Signed by author. Line drawings by Peter Hurd accompany this "pageant of New Mexico's storied past, reconstructing from remains the culture of the cliff-dwelling aborigines, depicting the mode of life of the Pueblo people who followed them...telling of the invasion of the Conquistadores, who counted it as worthless land when they failed to find precious metal, and tracing history through two and a half centuries of Spanish and Mexican rule to the coming of the Americans and the life of the present day." --London Times, jacket copy. "In this revised edition, the author has renewed the book with fifty pages of fresh material, drawn from decades of observing the Southwest."--back cover

Climatology, Human geography, Human geography New Mexico, New Mexico, New Mexico Climate, Nouveau-Mexique, Nouveau-Mexique Climat, Pflanzen, Siedlung, Tiere, Wetter