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Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico Hardcover – October 30, 2002

by C. M. Mayo (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
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Armchair travelers as well as those who have been in Mexico will take pleasure in reading this fine collection of essays by Mayo (formerly economics, ITAM, Mexico City, she's the founding editor of (/Tameme ). Moving through the different regions of Baja, Mayo describes its people, food, tourists, festivals, and problems in a travelogue-style narrative that alternates between description and her frequent conversations with the local people. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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    328 pages
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    University of Utah Press
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    October 30, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0874807409
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0874807400
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With elegant prose and an artist's eye for detail, Mayo may just have written one of the best books ever about Baja California. Mayo (Sky over El Nido, which won a Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction) divides her time between Mexico City and the United States, and it's her Mexican residency and employment that give her Baja explorations an extra edge. This Mexican California, a 1000-mile-long peninsula, presents a bewildering combination of opposites. The landscape can be fierce desert or productive farmland. Baja's citizens are often desperately poor or revoltingly rich. The land attracts both opportunists and expatriates; the Jesuits arrived early on and were removed by interdict from their own church. From south to north, Mayo explores Baja's tourist -crowded Cabo San Lucas and its notorious border city, Tijuana. She travels by mule to view ancient petroglyphs and explores the ruins of long-abandoned missions. One might say she experiences to the fullest all Baja has to offer. Still, the mysterious allure of Baja California is never diminished; it remains a destination that conjures up a frisson of danger and the siren call of unexplored spaces. Highly recommended for travel collections of large public and academic libraries.
Janet Ross, formerly with Sparks Branch Lib., NV
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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C. M. Mayo’s collection Sky Over El Nido won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and she is the founding editor of the bilingual (Spanish/English) literary journal Tameme.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Utah Press; First Edition (October 30, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0874807409
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0874807400
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 63 ratings

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C.M. Mayo has been living in and writing about Mexico for over twenty-five years. In 2017 she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Her most recent book is METAPHYSICAL ODYSSEY INTO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: FRANCISCO I. MADERO AND HIS SECRET BOOK, SPIRITIST MANUAL, winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for History. She is also the author of THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE, an historical novel based on the true story, which was named one of the best books of 2009 by Library Journal; MIRACULOUS AIR: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico; and SKY OVER EL NIDO, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. An avid translator of Mexican contemporary poetry and fiction, her anthology of 24 Mexican writers is MEXICO: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION. www.cmmayo.com

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G. Ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars Miraculous Air - a beautiful book about Baja California
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2016
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Miraculous Air was given to me years ago by a friend who worked at the University of Utah that was involved with the publication. I loaned it to a friend and never saw the book again, but this is a book I wanted for my book collection to read over and over, so I bought this copy. I absolutely love the travel story of C.M.Mayo's travel's through Baja California. I hope some day to visit the places she visited. I remember reading this book the first time and thinking how daring and adventurous she was to travel all these places alone. I am sure some of the places she wrote about are tourist attractions today, but this book planted the seed in my heart to want to travel to Baja California and visit many of the places she spent time. It is a lovely, descriptive book of a beautiful area of Mexico and celebrates the people and culture of Baja California.
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SusieQ LoveMore
4.0 out of 5 stars Miraculous Reading!
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2012
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I found this book making me LOOOOONNNNNGGGG for planning a trip to Cabo & the Sea of Cortez and all along Baja. I ordered this book so that I could help my daughter write a paper for one of her marine biology classes. It had all the perfect ingredients: habitat and ecology discussions; cultures that affect the marine life; whimsical and historical accounts of people, places and events; and a most interesting narrative. I recommend this for a summer reading!
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Richard M
5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know the Baja read this.
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019
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This is the truth of the Baja.
For over 30 years I have lived in California and Cabo.
I bought a condo in Marina Sol before the 7 story was started.
I truly love the Baja, and it's people. I have gone to all these places . I have never felt danger.
However now from TJ to just north of Cabo the behaviour
of Mexico City now pervades.
No longer can you drive down with out worries and I would NOT advise it
As far as Cabo is concerned it's safe.
Just north of San Jose del Cabo the Mexican government
Has built a huge military base to protect the jewel at the tip of Baja and all the American investments.
Out side of the growth in Cabo San Lucas,
It is truly the "found" jewel of Mexico.
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Doc VanDijk
5.0 out of 5 stars So that's where I was . . .
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2013
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I've nosed around the Baja for nearly 40 years. C.M. Mayo let me ride along and showed me how much I missed. This is no innocuous work to merely be read and shelved. She manages to make some sense of what the Baja of today is and how it came to be.

This work is Baja History 101, masked as a simple narrative of a drive north. A journey of 1000 miles and over 500 years.

I know I' m late to the party on this one, but this is a remarkable book.
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Kristin Larson
4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful travelogue that weaves the mystery and magic of the ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015
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A wonderful travelogue that weaves the mystery and magic of the Baja Peninsula with its eccentric history, its hardy inhabitants and the author's own meandering musings. I grew up traveling to the Baja in my father's bush plane starting in the early 1970s, and Mayo's book fills in the empty spots of my own map of Baja and brings back the smells and wistful landscapes of this truly miraculous landscape. Its truly a timeless read.
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M. Connor
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2012
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I live in Baja (East Cape, BCS) about 6 months of the year and have read numerous books about the peninsula. This is the most entertaining of them all. I don't give summaries of the contents of a book; the reader should discover that for him/herself or from a better reviewer than I. Suffice to say that Catherine is a top notch writer and story teller.
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Lee De Cola
4.0 out of 5 stars read it in Baja
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2015
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I skipped around the book as I sailed to Los Cabos and then took buses in the area...Mayo seems able to capture the insights of a Mexican as well as the feelings of an American outsider...the book will help you understand a love-hate affair.
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J Michael McDade
5.0 out of 5 stars Miraculous Air
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2012
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C.M. Mayo is a force in Mexican literature. This book blends a very personal travelogue in Baja, a part of the world that is little known and understood, with fascinating, well researched history. The history writing focuses on particular periods and locals, and really makes the entire Baja Peninsula come alive.
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Reshapers
5.0 out of 5 stars Endearing and enlightening stories of Mexico
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2018
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Loved this book -have read it twice already. I bought it in the hope to better understand Mexico, Mexicans and the Baja as we sailed around it. In this it did not disappoint, as the stories and background she shares reveal much of this magical place and its history and people. But more than a travel book it is a story of her journey to understand the meaning of life and her place in it, told with mindful awareness, that gently accompanies you to do the same. A gifted story teller, highly recommended.
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