Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico
by C.M. Mayo
Hardcover: University Of Utah Press, 2002
Paperback: Milkweed Editions, 2007
Ebook: Dancing Chiva, 2011
“One of the best books ever about Baja California. Highly recommended”
—Library Journal
“[Miraculous Air] is one of the best travel books I have ever read, a cross between John Graves’s Goodbye to a River and Patrick Leigh Fermor’s two accounts of his walk across Europe in 1934, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Like Graves, she has a sensitivity to the landscape, especially the bleak landscape of the desert; like Fermor, she has an appreciation for quirky behavior and personal stories that border on fantasy. As a North American with a Mexican husband, she also has a sense of how the two cultures can clash.”
—Lonn Taylor, Big Bend Sentinel
“C.M. Mayo uses a reporter’s instincts, an artist’s eye, and a deft literary touch to create visions of Baja California to delight those who know it best and offers a knowing introduction to others who resort to the pleasures of these pages. A sensitive and knowing over-view of a place and a people so near and yet so far from theU.S. or Mexico.”
—Harry W. Crosby, author of Antigua California
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