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Title: Journey With a Baja Burro (Sunbelt Cultural Heritage Books) by Graham Mackintosh ISBN: 0-932653-41-3 Publisher: Sunbelt Publications Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A man, a mission, some wonderful moments.
Comment: Fourteen years after his trek around the coast of Baja California, Mackintosh, now a San Diego family man, is again drawn from the common world to a most uncommon journey. This time trekking southward in mountainous inland Baja with a pack burro. [I have had the great pleasure of meeting Graham Mackintosh and talking with him about his earlier book and about this one. For what it's worth, I found him to be the same gentle pilgrim that we meet in his writings.] "There was something very compelling and liberating about surrendering... From now on there would be no Mitsubishi, no Microsoft, no modem, no modern world, and maybe no home or wife -- just [the burro] and me, my goal, my God, and the good, simple people of Baja California," muses Mackintosh in a moment of introspective single-mindedness. Something that I enjoy about his observations, thoughts, and interests, if how often they closely resemble my own; one example being his delight in the company of a certain species of bird which I also particularly enjoy -- and which never fails to exhibit and inspire a certain indescribable joy -- the black phoebe.
As in his earlier book, Into A Desert Place, frequently recurring samplings of the history of Baja (and Alta) California, including the accomplishments and abuses of the Spanish missionaries, are well related and seamlessly augment the story. Mackintosh labels himself 'a poor Christian and a worse Catholic' and, for this reader, many of the books finer moments center in the author's spiritual questionings, insights, struggles, perhaps heresies, visionary experiences, and graceful redemptions. "Behind the cool, hard, smooth rock, I sensed that there was another reality close at hand. That's how far I had come! I had seen the solid, indubitable forms of the great mountains and valleys dissolve into extraordinary visions; and at times I had almost felt myself dissolving into the world... I sensed it wasn't just an illusion. For a few precious moments, I had been freed from my hobbles. I had looked and stepped beyond... The journey... seemed, in part, a vital preparation for a much bigger journey to come."
Rating: 5
Summary: Will intrigue a wide audience
Comment: In Journey With A Baja Burro, adventure traveler Graham Mackintosh returns to the remote desert setting of his previous book in his expedition a thousand miles from the U.S. border south to Loreto. He and his burro follow the trail which leads to most of the mission sites along the way; his humorous first-person account will intrigue a wide audience.
Rating: 5
Summary: Journey With a Baja Burro
Comment: JOURNEY WITH A BAJA BURRO is a gem of a book. Graham Mackintosh has written of his walk with his burro Mision through the mountains and deserts of the Baja California peninsula so vividly and poetically that it comes alive in our minds. His relationship with his sometimes-exasperating animal companion is funny and touching. Reading JOURNEY WITH A BAJA BURRO will teach you a lot about this relatively unknown Mexican peninsula which extends a thousand miles below the border of California, and you'll have a lot of fun on the journey.
Ann O'Neil, Longtime Baja California resident and author of "Loreto, Baja California: First Mission and Capital of Spanish California"
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Title: Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California by Graham Mackintosh ISBN: 0393312895 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, the Other Mexico by C. M. Mayo ISBN: 0874807409 Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Magnificent Peninsula: The Comprehensive Guidebook to Mexico's Baja California by Jack Williams, Patty Williams, Barbara Williams ISBN: 1891275038 Publisher: HJ Williams Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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