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Baja book finds

805gregg - 11-13-2009 at 09:15 PM

I went to the local used bookstore today, it's called Barts Books, it's in Ojai, I found new to me "Off Beat Baja" by Jim Hunter. Pub 1977, great stories, he traveled in an FJ42 I think. Also I got an old Time Life book" Baja California". This has some good pictures, my wife is an aspiring artist. And finally I got "Adventure Kayaking Baja" by Andromeda Romano-Lax a 1993 book about kayaking around all of Baja, that should be a good read. All for $18.00 USD

KurtG - 11-13-2009 at 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by 805gregg
I went to the local used bookstore today, it's called Barts Books, it's in Ojai, I found new to me "Off Beat Baja" by Jim Hunter. Pub 1977, great stories, he traveled in an FJ42 I think. Also I got an old Time Life book" Baja California". This has some good pictures, my wife is an aspiring artist. And finally I got "Adventure Kayaking Baja" by Andromeda Romano-Lax a 1993 book about kayaking around all of Baja, that should be a good read. All for $18.00 USD


Hunter's book was a good one, I met him in Mulege back in the day. I seem to remember he had a Honda 350 (SL350, maybe) with a huge hunk of foam strapped to the seat. I also have that Time Life book and agree that the photos are very nice.

Barry A. - 11-13-2009 at 10:57 PM

Gregg---------all 3 of those books are great-----a wonderful find, for sure.

Barry

David K - 11-14-2009 at 10:28 AM

Great details of the roads he covers... He has a Class1-10 catagory of classifications of dirt roads... 10 being the worse... which included parts of the road to Mision Santa Maria!

It was Jim's book that I learned about the copper mine north of La Gringa... I sure wish he would have done a second edition or more... Originally published in 1977...

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