Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California

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Long frequented by pirates and haunted by pariahs, Baja California has transform a favorite destination for whale watchers, hikers, and scuba divers. For Bruce Berger it has been more. In Almost an Island, he’s taking readers beyond the Baja of guidebooks and offers a wildly entertaining look at the real Baja California. 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 probably the most greatest primitive work of art in the Western Hemisphere. In Almost an Island, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this atypical place, enriching his account with the peninsula’s history, its politics, and its probable future—rendering a striking panorama of this land so on the subject of the USA, so famous, and so little known. Readers will meet a cast of characters as eccentric as the place itself: Brandy, who ranges the desert in a sand buggy at the same time as breathing from an oxygen tank; Katie, the chanteuse; nuns illegally raising pigs. They’ll encounter the tourist madness of a total eclipse, the story of the heir to an oasis, a musical Mata Hari, rare pronghorn antelope, and a pet tarantula. In prose as glittering as this desert engulfed by the sea, Almost an Island is an interesting journey into the human heart of a spectacular land.

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