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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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University of Arizona Press
Language
English
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211

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Social life and customs, Description and travel, Open Library Staff Picks, Travel, Berger, Bruce -- Travel -- Mexico -- Baja California., Baja California (Mexico) -- Description and travel., La Paz (Baja California Sur, Mexico) -- Social life and customs., Baja california (mexico : peninsula), description and travel, La paz (baja california, mexico)
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Bruce Berger
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Baja California, Baja California (Mexico), La Paz (Baja California Sur, Mexico), Mexico, Mexico) La Paz (Baja California Sur

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Almost an island: travels in Baja California
1998, University of Arizona Press
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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 on their tales
Under the cypress
Earth day with the governor
Rancho San Fulano
Acknowledgments.

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Dewey Decimal Class
972/.24
Library of Congress
F1246 .B44 1998, F1246.B44 1998

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Pagination
ix, 211 p. ;
Number of pages
211

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OL349749M
Internet Archive
almostislandtrav00berg
ISBN 10
0816519013, 0816519021
LCCN
98009012
OCLC/WorldCat
38573199
Library Thing
663877
Goodreads
4464950
783294

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