Kino, A Legacy. His Life, His Works, His Missions, His Monuments

POLZER, S. J., CHARLES W.

Publication: Jesuit Fathers of Southern Arizona, 1998, Tucson

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the half title page and with a typed/signed letter to a Tucson bookseller laid-in. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, x, 198 pp., acknowledgements, illustrated mostly from photographs, drawings, portraits, maps, a reading guide, photo credits, large folding map. Father Kino, was a Tyrolean Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer born in the Territory of the Bishopric of Trent, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. For the last 24 years of his life he worked in the region then known as the Pimería Alta, modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States. He explored the region and worked with the indigenous Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O'Odham, Sobaipuri and other Upper Piman groups. Fine bright copy.

Inventory Number: 50205