Books to Take on your Baja Expedition

These are our recommendations for books to take to Baja.

Diving Books • Guide Books • Sea Life • Fiction, etc

Baja California Dive Guides

Lonely Planet : Diving and Snorkelling in Baja California

by Walt Peterson, Paperback, Lonely Planet Publications, 160 pages, (1999)
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Diving Baja California

by Susan Speck, Paperback, Aqua Quest Diving Series, 128 pages (1995)
Read our interview with the author, Susan Speck
More details at the Intenet Bookshop (WH Smith), 10% off
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Baja California Guide Books

Baja Handbook: Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas

by Joe Cummings, Moon Publications, Paperback, 380 pages (1998)
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Lonely Planet : Baja California

by Wayne Bernhardson, Paperback, Lonely Planet Publications, 328 pages, (1998)
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Baja Boater's Guide : The Sea of Cortez : The Definitive Guide for the Coastal Waters

by Jack Williams, Hj Williams Publications, 256 pages, 2001
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Sea Life

Coral Reef Fishes, Indo-Pacific and Caribbean

by Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers, Harper Collins, 400 Pages, Paperback (February 1999)
An excellent, comprehensive guide to reef fishes, which is small and light enough to pack regardless of amount of diving equipment. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to identify the fish they see whilst diving the tropics.
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Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez: The Rocky-Shore Fishes of the Gulf of California

by Donald A Thomson et al, Paperback, 374 pages, University of Texas Press (May 2000)
This guide seeks to be a standard resource for divers and snorkellers - popular and scientific coverage of regional fish fauna.
Buy from the Internet Bookshop (WH Smith), 5% off
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Guide to Marine Invertebrates; Alaska to Baja California

by DW Gotshall, Paperback
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Sea of Cortez Marine Animals; A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates - Baja California to Panama

by DW Gotshall, Paperback
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Handbook of Turtles : The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California

by Archie Fairly Carr, J. Whitfield Gibbons, Paperback, Cornell Univ Pr - 542 pages, (1995)
More details at the Internet Bookshop (WH Smith), £25.47
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Baja California Plant Field Guide

by Norman Roberts, Paperback, Natural History Pub Co, Revised edition (1989)
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Fiction, etc

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

by John Steinbeck, Paperback, Penguine
In 1940, Steinbeck and his friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, ventured into the Gulf of California to search for marine invertebrates along the beaches. This exciting, day-by-day account of their trip, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy and high-speed adventure that provides a fascinating portrait of Steinbeck and Ricketts.
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