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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. Highly
recommended"
Library
Journal
"Ay,
if only I had been at C.M. Mayo's side in her rendezvous through
Baja California... My recourse is her joyful, intellectually
sparkling chronicle"
Ilan
Stavans,
author of The Hispanic Condition
"Perhaps
the best new book about Mexico (and — indirectly —
its northern neighbor) in many years.... This book has our highest
recommendation. It is a joy."
Interamerican Studies Institute
"A
breathtaking vision of the past, present, and future of [Baja
California]... Meticulously researched... a valuable combination
of historical and social study"
El Paso Times
"A luminous exploration
of Baja California, from its southern tip at Cabo San Lucas to
its 'lost city' of Tijuana... [Mayo] takes the fiction writer's
impulse and blends it with the instincts of a journalist to create
a work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth"
Los
Angeles Times Book Review
"This
is the one book that truly deserves the "highly recommended"
label for us Mexicophiles."
The
Mexico File
"Miraculous
Air is rich with its own evocative descriptions of the peninsula's
raw beauty.. Her journey of 1,000 miles is a trip worth taking."
The
San Diego Union-Tribune
"A
beguiling picture of an exasperating place 'where nothing is
as it seems,' a place both 'touched with evil' and blessed with
beauty and hope... a stunning portrait of Baja California"
Sara
Mansfield Taber, author of Dusk on the Campo
"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
the
U.S. or Mexico."
Harry
W. Crosby, author of Antigua California
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