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A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California (Paperback)

by Ann Zwinger (Author), Herman H. Zwinger (Author)

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Paperback: 399 pages
Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr (May 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816509883
ISBN-13: 978-0816509881
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,206,702 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's by far the best book in English on Los Cabos., October 26, 1999

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This review is from: A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California (Hardcover)

A wonderful book on Los Cabos by a woman who obviously loves the place. It's well written, it has elegant drawings by the author and excellent photos by her husband, Herman H. Zwinger. In fact it's by far the best book in English on Los Cabos, with coverage of the plants and animals, fish and birds, ocean and desert, mountains and arroyos. A lot of the area's history is woven in and out of the book and in the appendix is a great chronology of Baja (including the capture in 1587 of the Spanish galleon Santa Ana by Thomas Cavendish at Cabo San Lucas), and painstaking lists of the plants, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians of the Cape Region.

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