Journey with a Baja Burro

Journey with a Baja Burro
Author: Graham Mackintosh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
ISBN: 9780932653413

Entertaining account of the author's experiences walking with a burro 1,000 miles from the U.S. border to Loreto, Baja California. Mackintosh and his burro traversed scorching desert and frigid pine-covered mountains to visit mission sites along the way.

Into a Desert Place

Into a Desert Place
Author: Graham Mackintosh
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780393312898

The author recounts his experiences walking around the Baja California coast, describes the region's desert wildlife, and shares his impressions of the people and landscapes

Baja Legends

Baja Legends
Author: Greg Niemann
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780932653475

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.

Marooned with Very Little Beer

Marooned with Very Little Beer
Author: Graham Mackintosh
Publisher: Baja Detour Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
ISBN: 9780962610929

Describes the author's two-month stay on Isla Angel de la Guarda in the Gulf of California, Baja, Mexico.

Postcards from the Baja California Border

Postcards from the Baja California Border
Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0816542554

Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Baja California Adventures

Baja California Adventures
Author: Froylan TiscareƱo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1483641937

The stories featured in Baja California Adventures take place during a span of almost sixty years of travel in the rugged, parched, yet hauntingly attractive peninsula. The author kept detailed notes on most of his trips then fleshed out this skeleton in a narrative that places the reader in the role of participant in the adventure. Thus, one feels the bite of the 4WD tires into the desert sand, newly hard-packed by the moisture of a quick-moving thunderstorm. The author describes the excitement of finding Indian petroglyphs, arrowheads, or clay ollas in remote canyons. Because Mr. Tiscareo is also a pilot, many of the trips included here involve mention of the special immigration rules for private fly-in tourists. Finally, there are Baja adventures in the pine-clad granite fortress that is the Sierra de San Pedro Mrtir in the northern part of the peninsula. Here, the author joined other veteran Bajeos in hoof-and-boot or horse-assisted explorations. In short, this book should be inspiration to those readers who want to visit Baja California, particularly the less tourist-trod destinations. Armchair travelers will derive vicarious pleasure without the effort of going there themselves.

Baja's Wild Side

Baja's Wild Side
Author: Daniel Cartamil
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781941384329

Featuring more than 100 breathtaking images and stories by shark biologist Dr. Cartamil chronicling Baja California's Pacific coast region, this book examines a fragile paradise of remote landscapes, wildlife, and cultural treasures on the verge of being overtaken by modern civilization.

Gateway to Alta California

Gateway to Alta California
Author: Harry Crosby
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780932653574

The story of this journey through northern Baja California's unexplored wilderness to San Diego is actually two stories, crafted by artful and incisive historian Harry Crosby. The first begins well before the expedition commences and involves world events, politics, and the characters who were destined to forge this momentous march. The second is a daily record of the trek itself, told through first-person diary excerpts and the author's own comments as he followed in their footsteps, mapping this historic route for the first time. Together, they show not only the hardships and victories of blazing the difficult trail, but the resolve of this company of fifty heroic men. Gateway to Alta California contains the author's color maps, which provide a graphic statement of the journey into terra incognita, as well as his black-and-white photos of the largely unchanged terrain. Also included are lists of all Hispanic members of the expedition party -- many identified here for the first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.

Baja Outpost

Baja Outpost
Author: Marvin Patchen
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780932653543

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.

Autobiographical Writings on Mexico

Autobiographical Writings on Mexico
Author: Richard D. Woods
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2024-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476611823

This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans and foreigners, with authors ranging from disinherited peasants, women, servants and revolutionaries to more famous painters, writers, singers, journalists and politicians. Primary sources of historic and artistic value, the writings listed provide multiple perspectives on Mexico's past and give clues to a national Mexican identity. This work presents 1,850 entries, including autobiographies, memoirs, collections of letters, diaries, oral autobiographies, interviews, and autobiographical novels and essays. Over 1,500 entries list works from native-born Mexicans written between 1691 and 2003. Entries include basic bibliographical data, genre, author's life dates, narrative dates, available translations into English, and annotation. The bibliography is indexed by author, title and subject, and appendices provide a chronological listing of works and a list of selected outstanding autobiographies.