Eight hundred miles long, Baja California is the remotest region of the Sonoran desert, a land of volcanic cliffs, glistening beaches, fantastical boojum trees, and some of the greatest primitive murals in the Western Hemisphere. In this book, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this extraordinary place, enriching his account with the peninsula's history, its politics, and its probable future--rendering a striking panorama of this land so close to the United States, so famous and so little known.
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Eight hundred miles long, Baja California is the remotest region of the Sonoran desert, a land of volcanic cliffs, glistening beaches, fantastical boojum trees, and some of the greatest primitive murals in the Western Hemisphere. In this book, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this extraordinary place, enriching his account with the peninsula's history, its politics, and its probable future--rendering a striking panorama of this land so close to the United States, so famous and so little known.
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There are some interesting parts of the book but finding them is like picking fly poop out of pepper. The author is a good word smith and an elitist, heaping praise on fellow Yale alumnus J Krutch and ridiculing E Gardner. I think the accusation that Gardner was an artifact thief was proven false many years ago. If you are a Yale alumnus, drink white wine, and drive a Subaru this is the book for you. If you love Baja and its people look for books by Mackintosh and Mayo
