A personable, and marvelously well informed, portrait of the land and people of Baja California from Cabo San Lucas to Tijuana. Mayo is also the author of Sky Over el Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She's enchanted with Baja (as was Steinbeck, from whom she took the quote "the very air here is miraculous….")  (BJA34, $15.00)