Description: This multifaceted description of Sonora was written by an eighteenth-century Jesuit missionary to the Pima, Opata, and Eudeve Indians.
Review Quotes: "An important source of description of Spanish colonial Sonoran life and society."--Journal of the Southwest
"Good reading. . . . Its prose is delightful, filled with humor and honesty."--Southwestern Mission Research Center Newsletter "Impressive."--Books of the Southwest "Piety and practicality, faith and empiricism, come together in harmony in these pages."--Hispanic American Historical Review