Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey

by Adriel Heisey, Heisey

The Sonoran Desert, which straddles the Arizona-Mexico border, is like no other place on earth. In Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey, writer/photographer and ultralight pilot Adriel Heisey helps us see and appreciate it in a whole new light. Heisey's astonishing aerial images reveal a rugged landscape that is at once sublime and surreal, forbidding yet fragile, intimate and infinitely varied. His sensual prose puts us in the pilot's seat and invites us to experience the desert from his unique perspective.Take off with Heisey on an aerial odyssey over the Sonoran Desert, and prepare to be transformed by the journey.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2000

Reviews

[Budd Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fellow Tucsonan, arial photographer that renewed my love of flying and photography and motivated me to begin flying ultralights.