Off The Beaten Track In Baja

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Beaten Track in Baja written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating account of Erle Stanley Gardner's latest adventures exploring the hidden reaches of Baja California" --

Author : Greg Niemann
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780932653475
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baja Legends written by Greg Niemann and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula, its colorful past and booming present, in this fascinating reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories make it a "must-have" for Bajaphiles as well as armchair travelers.

Author : Mike Church
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974947150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveler's Guide to Camping Mexico's Baja written by Mike Church and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering invaluable sightseeing tips, advice on fun activities, and detailed descriptions of campgrounds, this grand tour of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula provides both RV and tent campers with the best resources for planning a vacation chock-full of beaches, backroads, golf, fishing, and water sports. The tour centers around one of the most interesting highways in the world, a two-lane ribbon of asphalt winding southward to Cabo San Lucas, from the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Cortez and back again, including such details as border crossings, document requirements, vehicle preparation, and road conditions. In addition to describing the formal campgrounds of Baja, featuring location maps, recreational opportunities, lists of facilities, and driving instructions from nearby towns and routes, this guide also provides telephone numbers, websites, e-mail addresses, GPS coordinates, and picture icons that offer a convenient, quick review of each campground.

Author : John Shewey
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811713326
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Steelhead Flies written by John Shewey and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive resource for tiers and anglers interested in the rich tradition of steelhead flies. Learn the histories of these classic flies, as well as how to tie them. • Covers steelhead flies from their origins in the 1890s up through the mid-1970s • Includes flies that remain popular today, as well as forgotten classics that were once popular or that exhibit stylistic merit • Contains 350 beautiful full color photos

Author : C. M. Mayo
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571313041
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miraculous Air written by C. M. Mayo and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite book is a rare jewel in the literature of Mexico and its little-known peninsula, Baja. Describing her adventures on this austere and beautiful slip of land, C. M. Mayo creates a multi-layered map of place filled with daredevil aviators, sea turtle researchers, Stone Age cave painters, and countless other colorful characters. Covering Baja from Cabo San Lucas to Tijuana, Mayo's wit and curiosity help her weave a story that seamlessly combines history, myth, art, and local color.

Author : Gregory MacDonald
Publisher : 39 West Press
ISBN 13 : 1946358142
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea written by Gregory MacDonald and published by 39 West Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth has it that Baja California was once ruled by a giant queen, Calafia. Her subjects were black Amazon women, and they lived in a land of ferocious griffins, tall mountains, precipitous cliffs, and deep valleys. Baja was also said to be an island of gold and precious stones. Spanish explorers, lured by tales of riches and beautiful women, were drawn to this mythical place. Jesuit priests, adventurers, fishermen, hunters, and the curious soon followed. In Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea, Gregory MacDonald has assembled a superb collection of excerpts from diaries, letters, field notes, books, and journals. These short impressions give us the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes of mountain hamlets, lush valleys, hot deserts, and blue seas, and together, they create a stunning narrative of the mythology, history, and topology of the Baja land, sea, and people. Montalvo, Cortéz, and Padre Eusebio Kino—in 1400, 1535, and 1701, respectively—describe the flora and fauna of a peninsula untouched by civilization, and in the twentieth century, Bancroft, Cannon, Crosby, Gardner, North, Steinbeck, and Octavio Paz, among others, speak of the fishing, the hunting, and, despite hardships, the pure joy of being. The writers observe fish pileups and feeding-frenzies; suffer insect bites, cactus pricks, and jellyfish stings; and are awed by magical sunsets, the silence of the desert, and the stars. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform the work into a masterpiece.

Author : Edward Von der Porten
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623497671
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Galleon written by Edward Von der Porten and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Galleon tells the story of archaeologists’ twenty-year search on a desolate beach in Baja California for the enigmatic remains of a Spanish galleon that disappeared without a trace more than four centuries ago. Carrying a cargo of Asian riches to the New World, Manila galleons forged the final link in the unification of the world through commerce by their annual voyages across the Pacific Ocean. Here, author Edward Von der Porten relates how a chance viewing of Chinese porcelain sherds in a museum catalog led him, his wife Saryl, and a team of researchers to the beachcombers who discovered the sherds. To Von der Porten, these sherds represented the possibility of something much more significant: one of the earliest known Manila galleon shipwrecks on the West Coast. In collaboration with the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH), Von der Porten and his colleagues undertook the first of many archaeological expeditions to investigate the site in 1999. Over twenty years, a team of American and Mexican archaeologists recovered thousands of artifacts and concluded that they had located the remains of the cargo from a Spanish galleon—most likely the San Juanillo of 1578. This copiously illustrated, highly accessible work offers an inside view of how archaeologists carefully assemble the evidence that allows scientific reconstruction of past events. Despite the grudging resistance of time, Von der Porten and his colleagues have resurrected the tale of the ill-fated San Juanillo to enrich our understanding and appreciation of the past.

Author : James T. Crow
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393600056
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Baja Handbook written by James T. Crow and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1972-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the off-pavement motorist in lower California.

Author : Marvin Patchen
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780932653543
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baja Outpost written by Marvin Patchen and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, thoughts, reminiscences, and comments from the many guests who visited this rustic cabin near Catavina in remote northern Baha California over the past 20 years.

Author : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773110
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American and British Writers in Mexico, 1556-1973 written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico’s impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by the Mexican government to be placed, in translation, in its public libraries, the book was also referenced by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz in an article in the New Yorker, “Reflections—Mexico and the United States.” Drewey Wayne Gunn demonstrates how Mexican experiences had a singular impact upon the development of English writers, beginning with early British explorers who recorded their impressions for Hakluyt’s Voyages, through the American Beats, who sought to escape the strictures of American culture. Among the 140 or so writers considered are Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Langston Hughes, D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Katherine Anne Porter, Hart Crane, Malcolm Lowry, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, Ray Bradbury, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. Gunn finds that, while certain elements reflecting the Mexican experience—colors, landscape, manners, political atmosphere, a sense of the alien—are common in their writings, the authors reveal less about Mexico than they do about themselves. A Mexican sojourn often marked the beginning, the end, or the turning point in a literary career. The insights that this pioneering study provide into our complex cultural relationship with Mexico, so different from American and British authors’ encounters with Continental cultures, remain vital. The book is essential for anyone interested in understanding the full range of the impact of the expatriate experience on writers.