AlanDavid90 - 6-10-2018 at 01:39 PM
Look everybody, The Baja California's Guides and Books They're available on Wayback Machine
Adventures of a gringo in Baja California (1977)
https://archive.org/details/adventuresofgrin00for_3ue
Lonely Planet
https://archive.org/details/bajacaliforniatr00wayn (1991)
https://archive.org/details/lonelyplanetbaja00wayn (1998)
https://archive.org/details/lonelyplanetbaja00dann (2007)
Automobile Club of Southern California
https://archive.org/details/bajacalifornia00auto (1993)
https://archive.org/details/bajacalifornia00auto_0 (1994)
https://archive.org/details/bajacaliforniaba00auto (1996
Hideden Baja by Richard Harris (2000)
https://archive.org/details/hiddenbaja00rich
Baja Gringos by Dorothea M. Eiler (1993)
https://archive.org/details/lonelyplanetbaja00wayn
Yesterday's Land, A Baja California Adventure by Leonard Wibberley (1961)
https://archive.org/details/yesterdaysland00wibb
Baja Handbook
https://archive.org/details/bajahandbook00cumm (1992)
https://archive.org/details/bajahandbookmexi00cumm (1994)
if you have Wayback Machine account you can read them when you activate the button "Borrow for 14 days" but nothing else is allowed to lend five books
David K - 6-10-2018 at 04:27 PM
Keep up the interesting sharing posts... Thank you!
AlanDavid90 - 6-10-2018 at 11:01 PM
You're welcome David
StuckSucks - 6-11-2018 at 10:03 AM
While wandering Baja in the 70s and 80s, I was always armed with the Auto Club Map and Joe Cummings Baja Handbook.
El Jefe - 6-12-2018 at 06:39 AM
Wayback Machine! Help Mr. Wizzard!!!
AlanDavid90 - 6-12-2018 at 04:00 PM
More Books from Wayback Machine
Baja Peninsula (1995)
https://archive.org/details/insightpocketgui00john_0
Angler's Guide to Baja California (1987)
https://archive.org/details/anglersguidetoba00mill
Baja California (1987)
https://archive.org/details/bajacalifornia00lind
Diving & Snorkeling Baja California (1999)
https://archive.org/details/divingsnorkeling00pete
The magnificent peninsula : the comprehensive guidebook to Mexico's Baja California (1989)
https://archive.org/details/magnificentpenin00will
Off the beaten track in Baja (1967)
https://archive.org/details/offbeatentrackin00gard
David K - 6-12-2018 at 04:31 PM
Off the Beaten Track in Baja was the first Erle Stanley Gardner book I owned... bought new when I was 10!
It contains (among other Baja expeditions) the story of opening the abandoned road between L.A. Bay and El Barril/Punta San Francisquito in February
1966 by the Garnder party.
That was the trip when the mystery walls were discovered near Bahia Las Animas... Walls that (Desert Magazine Editor) Choral Pepper (who was with the
group) would later determine to be part of a proposed but later deserted mission of Santa María Magdalena.
A dam, reservoir, date palm, and other interesting items are at that site... I went there in 2009 to see if the walls found on Google Earth by a Baja
Nomad (Sharksbaja) were the same as those photographed in 1966... they were! See www.vivabaja.com/109
I met Choral eighteen years ago and she told of her desire to go back to those walls but never could remember exactly where they were. I also
telephoned three other members of the Grander expedition (Bruce Barron, J.W. Black, and Ricardo Castillo). None of them remembered exactly where the
walls were.. only somewhere between L.A. Bay and El Barril. Choral hoped (and knew) I would eventually find the location. The Melchior Diaz Grave is
another of Choral Pepper's Baja mystery stories she hoped would be solved.
The wall site is not mentioned in Off The Beaten Track in Baja but photos of the road they opened are, and I found one notable grade just as difficult
when I drove that section in 2002 the first time as did the group in 1966 (two photos of it (page 202-203).
I also met Jesus Flores in 2002 as he was riding a mule past Camp Gecko. Erle Stanley Gardner wrote a chapter about him in another of his books plus a
photo in this book, on page 200 (misnaming him as Juan Flores). I took a photo of old Jesus signing my copy of The Hidden Heart of Baja at his photo
from 40 years earlier! see http://vivabaja.com/402/page6.html
Baja is just so great...
AlanDavid90 - 7-10-2018 at 07:07 PM
Baja California and the geography of hope (1967)
https://archive.org/details/bajacaliforniag00krut
The Natural History of Baja California (1980)
https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof00barc
Vermilion Sea : a naturalist's journey in Baja California (1992)
https://archive.org/details/vermilionseanatu00jano
David K - 8-30-2018 at 10:30 AM
Several photos taken on the Erle Stanley Gardner trips in the 1960s by Desert Magazine editor, Choral Pepper are on display at www.vivabaja.com/choralpepper
Please enjoy a look at a very special time in Baja California when Paved roads ended less than 200 miles from the border and the fascinating rock art
sites were being discovered (again) by modern travelers.
[Edited on 6-9-2019 by David K]
gueribo - 9-5-2018 at 09:55 PM
Thanks for this. Great resource.