Miraculous Air
Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico
by C. M. Mayo
With its title drawn from Steinbeck’s The Log of the Sea of Cortez
(“The very air here is miraculous”), C. M. Mayo’s richly layered
portrait of Baja begins at the tip and moves north, encompassing the
peninsula’s history (including indigenous cave paintings and Jesuit
missionaries), its colorful denizens (from surfers to pilots,
naturalists to self-styled captains), to its many attraction and
fantastic ventures (from whaling supply stations to copper mines,
tutrtle-processing plants to tomato farms, pearl fisheries to sport
fisheries, artist colonies to tourist hell). Baja, Mayo makes clear, is
neither United States now Mexico, but its own map of stories and places.
C. M. Mayo
Author's Bio:C. M. Mayo, a Texas native and longtime resident of Mexico City, taught
economics and international finance at ITAM in Mexico City before
turning to literary pursuits. She is the author of Sky Over El Nido,
which won the Flannery O'Connor for Short Fiction, and editor of
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion. Her travel writing has been
recognized with three Lowell Thomas Awards.
Quotes:"With elegant prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo may just have
written one of the best books ever about Baja California. Highly
recommended"—Library Journal
" [A] stunning portrait of Baja California" —Sara Mansfield Taber
"A luminous exploration of Baja California, from its southern tip at
Cabo San Lucas to its ‘lost city’ of Tijuana. . . . [Mayo] takes the
fiction writer’s impulse and blends it with the instincts of a
journalist to create a work of nonfiction that elides into a modern
myth.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Price:
$ 15.00
Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 100
Immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2007
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Genre: Nonfiction
Pages: 390
ISBN: 15713130404-INVALID
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