Baja: Sea Kayaking and Whale Watching

Baja Califonia Adventure Map, Two-pack, North and South

by National Geographic Society

2009
MAP

Together these two National Geographic Adventure Maps cover all of Baja California and surrounding islands at a scale of 1:450,000. We also carry the North (Item BJA65) and South (Item BJA66) Adventure Maps separately. (BJA67, $19.95)

Moon Handbook Cabo

by Nikki Goth Itoi

GUIDEBOOK
2011
PAPER
288 PAGES

A great resource for the independent traveler, this guidebook features a good introduction to land, history and culture, as well as practical detail on getting around, where to go, and where to stay. With personality, detailed local maps, glossary and suggested itineraries. (MEX143, $16.99)

The Baja Adventure Book

by Walt Peterson

GUIDEBOOK
2006
PAPER
310 PAGES

The oversized, comprehensive, eccentric guide to outdoor activities and life in Baja, featuring Peterson's excellent maps, practically kilometer-by-kilometer road logs, photographs and interesting facts and stories about the area. (BJA22, $24.95)

A Traveller's History of Mexico

by Kenneth Pearce

HISTORY
2003
PAPER
416 PAGES

This wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed Mexican history book marches confidently through the 1990s with useful chronology and historical gazetteer. (MEX172, $14.95)

The Camino Real and the Missions of Baja Califonia

by Miguel Leon-Portilla

HISTORY
2008
HARD COVER
32 PAGES

The accordion-style pages of this innovative book foldout to reveal an exquisitely detailed six foot long satellite map of the Peninsula. With photos and detailed information about the missions, brief biographies of key figures and essays on biodiversity, geology, history and missions of Baja California. Spanish and English. (BJA68, $40.00)

The Labyrinth of Solitude

by Octavio Paz

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
1985
PAPER
398 PAGES

These essays by the Nobel Prize-winning poet address Mexican culture and character. The chapters on the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and the conquest are especially memorable. (MEX08, $15.95)

Into a Desert Place

by Graham MacKintosh

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1995
PAPER
312 PAGES

The entertaining and typically British story of a 3,000-mile lark around the Peninsula by the spectacularly ill-equipped Mackintosh. The book takes the form of a two-year-long diary, recounting the eccentric personalities and his day-to-day efforts to feed himself -- along with some down-to-earth prose on the remote grandeur of the desert and sea. (BJA07, $16.95)

Miraculous Air

by C. M. Mayo

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2007
PAPER
368 PAGES

Like Steinbeck (from whom she quotes in the title "the very air here is miraculous"), Mayo is enchanted with the land and people of Baja. She writes of a 1,000 mile journey from Cabo to Tijuana with insight, warmth and style. (BJA34, $15.00)

The Girl of the Sea of Cortez

by Peter Benchley

LITERATURE
2013
PAPER
240 PAGES
COMING IN JULY

Benchley follows the fate of a young woman and her fascination with the sea and its creatures in this novel, first published in 1983. (BJA78, $15.00)

Eye of the Whale, Epic Passage From Baja to Siberia

by Dick Russell

NATURAL HISTORY
2004
PAPER
688 PAGES

Epic in scope, this absorbing, first-person account follows the migration of the gray whale from the lagoons along the Pacific coast of Baja to the summer feeding grounds in Alaska. (BJA32, $37.50)

Oasis of Stone

by Bruce Berger | Miguel Angel de la Cueva

NATURAL HISTORY
2007
HARD COVER
208 PAGES

The geology, plants, wildlife and human history of Baja in 180 gorgeous color photographs and marvelously informative essays. (BJA60, $49.95)

Ocean Oasis

by Soames Summerhays

NATURAL HISTORY
2000
DVD

Produced by Lindblad naturalist Summerhays in conjunction with the San Diego Natural History Museum, this IMAX film features eye-popping footage of both the desert landscapes and underwater scenes of the invertebrates, fish and especially the whales of Baja California. (BJA53, $14.99)

Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago, Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California

by Richard S. Felger

NATURAL HISTORY
2012
HARD COVER
748 PAGES

Ben Wilder and Richard Felger co-authored this monumental flora of Islas Tiburon, San Esteban, San Pedro Nolasco, Datil, and Alcatraz, Baja California's Sonoroan Islands. With 216 color photographs and 452 illustrations. (BJA74, $65.00)

Telling Our Way to the Sea, A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez

by Aaron Hirsh

NATURAL HISTORY
2013
HARD COVER
COMING IN AUGUST

Biologist, writer and director of The Vermilion Sea Institute, Hirsh recounts adventures leading a summer field camp on the shores of the Gulf of California in this series of essays. (BJA77, $30.00)

The Desert Year

by Joseph Wood Krutch

NATURAL HISTORY
2010
PAPER
272 PAGES

Joseph Wood Krutch celebrates the austere beauty, rugged plants and many animals of American Southwest in this classic account of his first year in Arizona, winner of the 1954 John Burroughs Medal for a Distingushed Book of Natural History -- and as enchanting today. With 33 original illustrations by Rudolf Freund. (USW652, $19.95)

Baja California Plant Field Guide

by Norman C. Roberts | Jon Rebman

FIELD GUIDE
2012
PAPER
452 PAGES

We can't imagine a walk through the deserts and islands of Baja California without this book in hand. With hundreds of color photographs illustrating 715 plants of the region, this superb field guide also includes short introductory chapters on vegetation, geology and climate. This expanded third edition was revised by Jon Rebman, botanist at the San Diego Natural History Museum. (BJA05, $34.95)

Baja, Sea of Cortez Marine Mammal Guide

by Rainforest Publications

FIELD GUIDE
PLASTIC CARD

A double-sided, laminated field guide illustrating the whales, dolphins and other marine mammals of the Sea of Cortez and Pacific coast of Baja. (BJA62, $5.95)

Field Guide to Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast

by Sarah G. Allen | Joe Mortenson | Sophie Webb

FIELD GUIDE
2011
PAPER
624 PAGES

Sophie Webb, director of Oikinos, contributes the exquisite paintings for this outstanding field guide, the 100th in the California Natural History Guides series, perfect for the Sea of Cortez. (PNW279, $26.95)

Fishwatcher's Field Guide Baja California, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco

by Idaz Greenberg

FIELD GUIDE
2000
PLASTIC CARD

A double-sided, full-color waterproof card. (BJA31, $7.50)

Mexico Field Guide, Baja California Sea and Shore Birds

by Rainforest Publications

FIELD GUIDE
2002
PLASTIC CARD

This beautifully illustrated, double-sided laminated card depicts 60 commonly encountered birds of coastal Baja California and the Sea of Cortez. We also carry the Baja, Sea of Cortez Marine Mammal Guide plastic card. (Item BJA62) (MEX174, $6.95)

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America

by Jon Dunn

FIELD GUIDE
2011
PAPER
576 PAGES

From Alaska to Baja California, Nova Scotia and Florida, this guide is the veteran's choice for birding anywhere in the United States. Tabbed for easy access, the color range maps in this sixth edition are outstanding. (FG09, $27.95)

Sea of Cortez Marine Animals

by Daniel W. Gotshall

FIELD GUIDE
2005
PAPER
112 PAGES

A handy photographic guide to common fishes and marine invertebrates from Baja to Panama. (BJA06, $24.95)

The Desert Islands of Mexico's Sea of Cortez

by Stewart Aitchison

FIELD GUIDE
2010
PAPER
120 PAGES

A biologist, geologist and naturalist on expedition cruises in the region, Stewart Aitchison brings experience -- and a large photo library -- to this well illustrated natural history. (BJA69, $15.95)

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