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Stuck at home - Baja books
Trying to keep the stir-crazy in check looking at my bookshelf at old Baja books.
Of course I came across Into A Desert Place but couldn’t believe it was 32 years ago!
Graham was winner of Adventurous Traveller of the Year Award in England. Can you imagine how those Brits felt about and guy walking a couple of
thousand miles in Mexico with a donkey?
I don’t even remember how I found out about his adventure and book but maybe through the the Baja Bush Pilots.
Also kind of crazy how he inspired another Nomad to do the same walk with a donkey.
So I think that I will again read his book and have a virtual journey down Baja.
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Graham began his 1980s adventure story writing with stories sent to the San Diego Union and Mexico West Travel Club newsletter... and eventually
Discover Baja Travel Club newsletters.
With the Internet in play from the 1990s, his second and third book story was shared on Amigos de Baja and eventually Baja Nomad, which was mentioned
in his fourth book.
1988 (Hardback edition)
2001:
2003:
2008:
Graham is on an adventure right now, self-isolating.
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Erle Stanley Gardner Books
I have always enjoyed Gardner's Baja adventure books! Going to the desert and exploring Baja was his way to clear the mind to dream up new Perry Mason
story lines.
Gardner used his TV show and book sales income to finance his 1960-1968 Baja expeditions in which he would bring several friends who were each
specialists in their field but all shared a love for camping. Erle paid for everything and even talked a helicopter company to provide copters to
explore the canyons of Baja, seeking palm tree filled canyons, giant cave art locations, and lost missions!
Other Gardner adventure books not in my collection:
Hunting Lost Mines by Helicopter
Host with a Big Hat
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I recommend
Nearer my dog to thee by graham mackintosh
Eye of the whale by dick russell
the earl stanley gardner stuff recommended in post above is a bit oldy, moldy and doesn't keep my interest.
you get bored of baja books, then read the classic
sometimes a great notion by ken kesey
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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Any of Daniele Reveles's books of short stories centered on Tecate. Or Franz's 'The People's Guide to Mexico'. Both of them you can just open at any
point and take up reading.
I think DK has a copy or two of Reveles's books for free.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by paranewbi  | Any of Daniele Reveles's books of short stories centered on Tecate. Or Franz's 'The People's Guide to Mexico'. Both of them you can just open at any
point and take up reading.
I think DK has a copy or two of Reveles's books for free. |
Yes, I got a large box of Daniel's book, Guacamole Dip, from Harry Crosby as part of the truckload of books that Sunbelt delivered to his home last
year... Books that 92 year-old Harry had no desire for!
I gave away about half of them to anyone who drove to my home (a lot went to Geoff of Baja Bound who will give them away at their Christmas parties,
etc.).
Now with social-distancing, no more personal pickups here, for now. HOWEVER, I still can go to the post office! I sell Reveles's book and Crosby's
books for under 50% of their list price. They are all new books. Go to www.oldmissions.com and scroll down, below my mission book, to see and order.
I also still have several of Mike Humfreville's Baja book from 2006, published only months before he went on to the "other place" we all will go to!
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Camp and Camino in Lower California by Arthur North. A great travel log of Baja in 1910.
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All my Baja books are in Baja, and I'm stuck up here stateside. So I've been watching videos on Youtube. I really like the ones featuring bicyclists
on the Baja Divide, a mostly off pavement route across and down the peninsula. If you just search on YouTube "Baja Divide" you will see many to choose
from. I hope to put some fat tires on my bike and do some of the route within the next few years before I get too old.
I did a cross country bicycle trip on my recumbent trike last fall from Chicago to Santa Barbara so I have the legs to do Baja. Now I just gotta
figure out if I have the huevos. Here is some fun reading, my journal from the trip tracing the route my grandparents took when they migrated from
Indiana to California in 1921.
www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/rollingbeachchair
Post a comment in the Guest Book if you like it. Happy Quarantining!
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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The Long walk to Mulege By Howard Hale if you can find it. Also any
of the stories in John Hiltons Baja Travel series book
Hardly Any Fences .
You can find some of them by putting John Hilton at the top of this
page under SEARCH tab. Happy reading about Baja's yesteryears.
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That is the 1977 reprint of the book, originally published in 1910.
Sadly, they didn't even read the book before creating the cover! The trip was actually in 1905 & 1906. The reprint has many added photos and notes
from Dr. Michael Mathes.
Here is the original 1910 edition:
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by vacaenbaja | The Long walk to Mulege By Howard Hale if you can find it. Also any
of the stories in John Hiltons Baja Travel series book
Hardly Any Fences .
You can find some of them by putting John Hilton at the top of this
page under SEARCH tab. Happy reading about Baja's yesteryears. |
I really enjoyed this book and have read it a couple times... A couple of WW-I vets walk to Mulegé in 1921. The book was published in 1980.
Hilton's works:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=28749
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=64703
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Here is a post from 2016 with photos of many of the books in my collection: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=81624
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Don Winslow's Border Trilogy will keep you up all night and really fill you in on the hard reality of life with the drug czars.
Start with "Power of the Dog"
then "The Cartel" which actually starts out in Tijuana
and finally "The Border"
Just finished "American Dirt" which is another spin on that topic.
A bit of Tijuana wraps into the story
Sorry for the edit, got titles mixed on the first book
Same title as a great WWI book by Shaara
[Edited on 4-10-2020 by thebajarunner]
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Log From The Sea of Cortez
Republished over the years with different covers but an amazing book of not only the adventure and the voyage with observing and gathering specimens,
but also the philosophical take on the relationship of the ocean and the heavens.
One of my strongest memories of my first night camped on a remote Baja beach was the incredible sky above like I had never seen before.
“....the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the
spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars
and then back to the tide pool again.”
― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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For further insight to Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea o Cortez
see Sparky Enea's book taken with a grain of salt of course!
https://www.amazon.com/Steinbeck-Sea-Cortez-Ricketts-Expedit...
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I just re-read "In to a Desert Place" again this spring while camping on the beach near Agua Verde. My copy was signed by Graham when we met at the
now gone Ecomundo palapa. I had just read the "Journey wiith a Baja Burrow" book and my wife and I had kayaked from Santaspac over to Ecomundo
because Graham had mentioned it in his burro book. We were talking to the owner when Graham walked in much to our surprise. He was on a trip to
visit his burro. I wish I could post the photo of me having a beer with Graham, but it is a pre digital print in an old photo alblum that I don't
have access to right now.
Graham presented us with a slide show a couple of days later. It was truly one of my fondest memories of Baja.
I still have my Baja Burro book that I can read again.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajarich | I just re-read "In to a Desert Place" again this spring while camping on the beach near Agua Verde. My copy was signed by Graham when we met at the
now gone Ecomundo palapa. I had just read the "Journey wiith a Baja Burrow" book and my wife and I had kayaked from Santaspac over to Ecomundo
because Graham had mentioned it in his burro book. We were talking to the owner when Graham walked in much to our surprise. He was on a trip to
visit his burro. I wish I could post the photo of me having a beer with Graham, but it is a pre digital print in an old photo alblum that I don't
have access to right now.
Graham presented us with a slide show a couple of days later. It was truly one of my fondest memories of Baja.
I still have my Baja Burro book that I can read again. |
Graham is a true gem and anyone who has met him or been privileged to hear him tell his story or see his slide show is indeed fortunate and you will
never forget it. I met Graham in 1990 at his slide show and have since attended several as well as had him as a guest at our Viva Baja events
(2000-2006).
Here are a few photos of Graham...
Feb 2000: San Clemente Pier meet -up (sitting with Mike & Mary Ann Humfreville):
Graham rode with me from San Diego to San Clemente for this first time meeting of many Internet Baja enthusiasts. 'elgatoloco' and wife Barb were
there, too. (as were 'M', Ferna de Tijuana, and more)
It went over so well, I was encouraged to create future meet-ups, and Viva Baja was born.
Oct. 2000, Viva Baja 1 (sitting with 'M'):
May 2001, Viva Baja 2 (sitting with 'BajaMur'):
Feb. 2002, Viva Baja 3 (with pilot Larry Hahn of BajaDreams.com):
Feb. 2003, Viva Baja 4:
Nov. 2006, Viva Baja Cactus:
Roger ('rogerj1') listens to Graham and Elizabeth ('Baja Angel').
Graham's website: www.grahammackintosh.com
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Can someone tell me a little about Portrait of Paloma? Thanks.
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David K
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It is a novel from Harry Crosby... he gave me a full case of them from the publisher last November, with the other books I have been giving away or
mailing.
I began reading it, but novels are not my thing and so I won't try and rate it. Once this virus is over, they are free if you come here. Otherwise, I
offer them at less than wholesale, to U.S. addresses, simply to cover postage and handling.
Here is the back cover with some details...
[Edited on 4-13-2020 by David K]
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A few favorites:
"Long Walk To Mulege" mentioned above is a great true adventure story.
"Almost An Island" by Bruce Berger. He is a very good writer. I especially liked his description of the 1991 Eclipse (I motorcycled down there in
July 1991 but that is a story for another post) and the chapter Earth Day With The Governor where turtle soup was served.
"Land Where Time Stands Still" by Max Miller
Journey Of The Flame by "Fiero Blanco." A great read.
"The Forgotten Peninsula" by Joseph Wood Krutch
There are, of course, many others but those are the ones that draw me back for re-reading in times like these.
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