Books

 

The Explore Sonora Books Gift Collection is dedicated to readers who want to understand Sonora beyond the headlines.

Here you’ll find curated titles on Sonora’s history, geography, Indigenous cultures, borderlands identity, wildlife, food traditions, spirituality, and social history.

These books are ideal for travelers, educators, students, historians, and anyone intrigued by the powerful story of Northern Mexico.

From academic research to personal memoirs and photographic journeys, each book opens a new door into Sonora’s rich and complex narrative.

Read Sonora. Understand its past. Walk its future.

David Yetman

Conflict in Colonial Sonora - Yetman
Scattered Round Stones - Yetman
Sonora an Intimate Geography
The Tropical Decidious Forest of Mexico

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Powerful, Indigenous, and Natural

The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico
The Birds of Northern Sonora
Shadow on the Pueblo
The Trees of Sonora Mexico

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Indigenous Sonora

Notes on the Indians of Sonora Mexico
The Opatas by Yetman
Yaqui Women
Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora

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Indigenous Sonora – The Yaqui

A Yaqui Life
Yaqui Resistance and Survival
Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet
Yaqui Myths and Legends

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A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
The Yaquis A Cultural History
Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace
Yaqui Woman and the Crystal Cactus

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Day of the Dead

Skulls to the Living Bread for the Dead
DDM A Celebration of Death and Life
Day of the Dead
Mexico's Day of the Dead

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Sonora Missions

A Guide to Historic Missions & Churches of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier
MISSIONS OF SONORA
A Life of Eusebio Francisco Kino

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