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The Sea of Dreams: Baja California's Natural Heritage
Hardcover
Environmental StudiesGeneral PhotographyMarine Life
Publisher Price: $150.00
ISBN13: 9788831403726
Publisher: Sunset & Venice
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 6.75
Height: 1.40 Width: 11.20 Depth: 12.70
Language: English
A breathtaking love letter to Baja California, and a poignant record of a vanishing world.
Baja California is a land of extremes--where desert meets sea, light plays on ancient mountains, and life thrives in unexpected places. The whales first called the author here more than twenty years ago, but what he discovered was a world so rich it became home.
This is a personal account of decades at sea, photographing whales and marine life and absorbing the beauty of the peninsula and the Sea of Cortés. With lyrical prose and striking images, the author portrays a place where boojum trees and cardón cactus rise like Gaudà sculptures, islands float like mirages, and gray whales find refuge in calm lagoons. But this is also a quiet warning. As time passes, we forget the abundance that once was. The sea, once teeming with life, is changing, with fewer whales, smaller fish, and quieter skies. This book records what was and reminds us of what could still be--if we choose to remember.
From Picacho del Diablo to the whirlpools of Salsipuedes, this journey captures wild animals in their element: unposed, untamed, real. At its core, it is a story of longing--for beauty, wildness, and truth--and of finding vivid, unexpected life among shooting stars and surfacing whales.
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