by Berger, Bruce
Format: Paperback, 211pp.
Long frequented by pirates and inhabited by pariahs, Baja California is today a favorite destination for whale watchers, hikers, and other adventurers. For Bruce Berger it has been more. In Almost an Island, he takes readers beyond the Baja of guidebooks and offers a wildly entertaining look at the real Baja California. Eight hundred miles long, Baja California is the remotest region of the Sonoran Desert, a place of spectacular cliffs, endless beaches, fantastical boojum trees, and some of the greatest primitive murals in the Western Hemisphere. In Almost an Island, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this extraordinary place, embellishing with details of the peninsula's history, its politics, and its probable future, and rendering a striking panorama of this land so close to the United States, so famous, and so little known.
Format: Hardcover, 160pp.
Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 256pp.
This lavishly illustrated full-color account offers Crosby's unique perspective on these mysterious Baja painted sites. Crosby's explorations, studies and writings since his original forays into the mountains of central Baja California have established him as one of the foremost authorities on Baja California's colorful past. This is the most complete treatment of this world-class archaeological site currently available.
The Cave Painting of Baja California was named a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, and the Natural History Book Club. The book is endorsed by the Mexican government. Contributing photographer is Enrique Hambleton. 71 full color photographs; 11 black and white photographs; 8 full color maps; 6 black and white maps; and 108 full color illustrations.
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 240pp.
Format: Paperback, 172pp.
This case study concerns "a group of families who migrated from Baja California Sur and settled along the US border of California. . . . {The authorargues that migration} strengthened family solidarity and ensured sociocultural stability, {and that} the decision to migrate . . . was not based solely oneconomic opportunity, but was heavily influenced by the economic support and familial help that kinsmen and kinswomen could offer to their relatives."
Format: Hardcover, 184pp.
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 310pp.
Mackintosh, an Englishman, fell in love with Baja California on a visit and, despite a glaring shortage of both experience and money, determined to walk its entire coast. This book is his account of how he equipped himself, what he saw and learned, and how he survived on this harsh and beautiful journey. In England, where it was first published, the book won the Adventurous Traveller of the Year Award
Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 342pp
Format: Hardcover, 100pp.
Format: Hardcover, 388pp.
Format: Paperback, 398pp.
To early explorers and geographers California represented a terrestrial paradise. It was Atlantis, Arcadia, Avalon, El Dorado, the Garden of Eden, the Land of Milk and Honey, the Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan. It was always a magnet for dreamers. In this fascinating book Dora Beale Polk examines the dreams and myths that influenced the discovery and exploration of California. Throughout, Polk treats the long-held concept of California as an island, going back to medieval lore that filled an unknown ocean with rich, mysterious ideal islands. Columbus carried the lore to the New World, expecting to find islands teeming with gold, pearls, fabulous creatures, and Amazon women.
Format: Paperback, 167pp.
Set in the shadowy no-man's-land between Mexican and American culture, Tijuana explores the shifting realities of many types of borders-geographic, cultural, temporal and psychological. The stories themselves..... providing a compelling illustration of a world caught in-between.
Format: Hardcover, 362pp.
Format: Paperback, 92pp.