ASIN: B00AL3R31K
Publisher: Illios Publishing
Pages: N/A
Approximately 75 pages with about 69 color images. This work is ENTIRELY pictorial. The San Xavier Mission is located about nine miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona. To get there from downtown Tucson take I-10 south to I-19 and exit at exit 92 west. The mission is about one mile from the exit on the west side of the highway. Known as the "White Dove of the Desert," it was built at a centuries-old Indian settlement of the Native Americans Tohono O'odham people (formerly known as Papago). In 1692 the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founded the mission as well as others in the Sonoran Desert chain. The original mission church was located about two miles away from the current mission and was vulnerable to Apache Indian attacks and was finally destroyed by them around 1770.The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from ...
