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Barry A.
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Wow, thanks Neal and David. What a gold mine!!!
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bufeo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
I'll try again, I looked once at ABES for Off the Beaten Track and got no hits...I am in Mulege now on a pretty permanent basis, so the Long Beach
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Just from ABEbooks nineteen copies for sale. Don't know what you did, but here's a LINK.
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chuckie
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Thanks Folks for all the help..Got what I needed, and weedled someone to bring em down..Thanks again....
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David K
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Baja books are a treasure! Isn't that right Neal? 
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dean miller
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DAVID K
To a bibliophile or collector a book has twice as much value IF it has an intact book cover.
Some of your books have covers which are in terrible condition while others have none.
I would strongly urge that your invest a few dollars in some Broadart center slit plastic books covers and some acid free mending tape to salvage
what you have remaining, This will protect the books from further damage.
You can purchase Broadart covers in a variety of sizes at many local book stores and in bulk on e bay
sdm
FYI Many years ago I aquired all of ESG's books in mint condition, they have been protected by Broadart covers and even at this junction in history
appear mint...sdm
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chuckie
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mine cost 14.25 delivered...In plastic
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David K
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Thanks... only Off The Beaten Track in Baja has been mine since 1967 or 68 when purchased new for me at 10 years of age... and it is well worn and got
water damaged in 1990... However, it (and the others aquired in the past 10 years) have no new damage... they came to me the way you see them above
from Internet or used book stores.
I appreciate the suggestion, it is a good idea... I just have so many Baja books, and they are all special to me.
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dean miller
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DAVID,
So do I...and as prized possesions I value them, protect them and use them...You need to spend some money take the time and protect your books with
some sort of a book jacket cover.
Suggest you might want to go to a used book store and have a conversation about book protection and book values with and with out a book jacket and or
book jacket cover.
Just might be an eye opener for you,
sdm
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I read and enjoyed every word of all the ESG books. Was introduced to them when Larry (Larry & Racquels) in BofLA loaned it to me at about 10pm.
At 2:30 I finished it and sent my wife an email to find them all for me. We got them all easily on eBay.
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chuckie
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Thanks to the good folks here, I have found all I want.I still have a bunch of the really old paperbacks..Back Roads of Baja, Baja Overland, couple
others that I bought way back...I now need an uptodate topo book...I have one, at the Ranch, lot of good thats does me, that was one of the first
ones..NO GPS codes...Had some good sea Charts but they went away in John or Jimena...Thanks again all
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
Thanks to the good folks here, I have found all I want.I still have a bunch of the really old paperbacks..Back Roads of Baja, Baja Overland, couple
others that I bought way back...I now need an uptodate topo book...I have one, at the Ranch, lot of good thats does me, that was one of the first
ones..NO GPS codes...Had some good sea Charts but they went away in John or Jimena...Thanks again all |
The Baja Almanac was revised in 2009, and made big again, alas but the scale was reduced a bit, rather than increased as it was on the original Baja
Topo Atlas...
Here is the 2009 Almanac next to the 2003 Almanac...
[Edited on 3-6-2012 by David K]
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David K
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The original BIG Baja Topo Atlas (1986 & 1991 editions same scale/ size) and the 2009 Baja Almanac and the 2003 Almanac:
[Edited on 3-6-2012 by David K]
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805gregg
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Gardner's books are great, he loved to go to Baja, but you soon realize he had a differnt way of visting Baja. With too much money he flew everywhere
sometimes with 2 helocopters, not a down to earth type of guy. I have some of his books, disapointing reading, but maybe collectable.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by 805gregg
Gardner's books are great, he loved to go to Baja, but you soon realize he had a differnt way of visting Baja. With too much money he flew everywhere
sometimes with 2 helocopters, not a down to earth type of guy. I have some of his books, disapointing reading, but maybe collectable.
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"disappointing reading"????? That's blasphemy!!!! He needed those helecopters (and airplanes) to get his "Perry Mason" revisions back to Hollywood
in a timely manner-------the producers were hard task-masters. Besides, he was a "heavy" man, and needed some help gettin around--------
His books are simple, but there sure is a wealth of info there, and he and his team had incredible spirit. Love his books, and I have all of them on
Baja and the Southwest USA.
Barry
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David K
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He used helicopters to get to places his land vehicles couldn't get to... He traveled by 4WD all over Baja. His caravans started in Temecula and he
drove down the peninsula in 4WDs. Planes shuttled the TV show scripts back and forth to his remote Baja camps. Thanks to Capt. Francisco Muņoz and
other pilots for this!
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Just got my "used" copy Off the Beaten Track in Baja through Amazon.
Somebody noted in there:
"From Marge....Father's Day 1967
A used but still a nice hardbound edition.
Karl
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