An edition of Almost an island (1998)

Almost an island

travels in Baja California

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An edition of Almost an island (1998)

Almost an island

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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.

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Almost an island: travels in Baja California
1998, University of Arizona Press
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Almost an island: travels in Baja California
1998, University of Arizona Press
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Table of Contents

Preface
Main transpeninsular highway
Air and fire
Vintage brandy
Guinea pigs for turkeys
Port of illusion
Curse of the adorers
Black pearl
The search for Mata Hari
Salt their tales
Under the cypress
Earth day with the governor
Rancho San Fulano
Acknowledgments.

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211 p. cm.
Number of pages
211

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OL23262985M
ISBN 10
0816519013, 0816519021
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98009012
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663877
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4464950
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