A stunning portrait of Baja California and the Gulf islands, celebrating the natural beauty of this unique and fragile land--from the desert and mountain landscape to the cliffs and lagoons. A memorable journey down the Baja peninsula that reveals the many adventures possible in this wild land. 184 color photographs.
Author, Vietnam veteran, filmmaker and naturalist Doug Peacock has published widely on wilderness issues: from grizzly bears to buffalo, from the Sierra Madres of the Sonoran desert to the fjords of British Columbia, from the tigers of Siberia to the blue sheep of Nepal. Doug Peacock was a Green Beret medic and the real-life model for Edward Abbey’s George Washington Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang.