Author

Publication

2002 - University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah

Language

English

Word Count

97,250 words, Guess

Page Count

389 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1025000
  • Goodreads1293706

Classifications

  • DDC917.2/204836
  • LCCF1246 .M39 2002

Description

"Desire took C. M. Mayo to Baja California again and again. But it was longing for understanding and for a sense of real connection that produced this exquisite book, a rare jewel in the literature of Mexico and of its little-known peninsula.". "Impassioned as a memoir, immediate as today's headlines, sweeping as the three centuries of history it traces, Miraculous Air unfolds before us, a deep map of place - rich, detailed, and nuanced. Cleaved from the Mexican mainland by the Sea of Cortes, separated from North America by a sea of cultural, economic, political, and historical difference, Baja California is, in the words of Fernando Jordan, "the other Mexico" - apart and strange. Nearly one thousand miles long, most of the peninsula is sand and rock; a labyrinth of sierra forms its spine, rising massive against the sky and the light-dazzled sea."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

TravelDescription and travelBaja california (mexico : peninsula), description and travelMayo, C. M. -- Travel -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Description and travel.

People

C. M. Mayo

Other Editions

  • Miraculous air: journey of a thousand miles through Baja California, the other MexicoUniversity of Utah Press2002-01-01

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