Like People You See in a Dream: An Excerpt from Miraculous Air About San Ignacio

The latest podcast is live: my reading of an excerpt from Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions paperback; Dancing Chiva e-book). It's from an excerpt from the chapter about the Jesuit missions and San Ignacio, in the center of the peninsula. (Approximately 28 minutes.)

The e-book edition of Miraculous Air should be up on Kindle by the second week of August, if not sooner.

>Read more about this book here.
>Listen to another podcast from this book, about Baja California's pioneer sportfisherman, Bob van Wormer, here.

My podcasts are free; download them from podmatic or iTunes. For a complete list of podcasts, including those on creative writing, Mexican literature in translation, Mexico's Second Empire, and more, visit www.cmmayo.com/podcasts.html

Black Robes in Paraguay by William F. Jaenike

This magnificent, deeply and scrupulously researched book will always have a place of honor in my library. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Latin American history--- and that includes the history of Baja California because of the parallel stories of their Jesuit missions. Visit the author's (and the book's) website at www.blackrobesinparaguay.com. This one goes on my annual top 10 list. More anon.