Product Description

Las Misiones Antiguas is a photographic journey and written record of every peninsular mission and several visitas of Baja California. Each site was photographed and it’s position recorded using a G. P. S. instrument. The description of each mission includes oral history from area residents. Sketches record the configuration of sites not previously mapped, and in the case of the largest Baja California mission, Comondú, the foundation was traced and old photographs were utilized to generate a computer model.

This information was combined with historic photographs of many of the sites. More than 300 graphic images and a description of the history and major events at the sites make this book the most comprehensive source of information on these fascinating and rapidly deteriorating architectural treasures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #842371 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 327 pages

Review
"This is a truly substantial book of little known and well seen missions." (Tradicion Revista )

"A splendid book!" (Southwest Books of the Year 2003 )

"Las Misiones Antiguas supplies the reader with a strong introduction to baja mission history." (New York Arts Magazine )

From the Publisher
The structures detailed in this book are rapidly deteriorating architectural treasures. The most comprehensive source of information on the fascinating peninsular missions and several visitas of Baja California, the content includes oral history from area residents, sketches, old photographs and computer-generated models of what used to be.

About the Author
Edward W. Vernon became interested in the missions of Baja California while on a trip to the peninsula. A resident of Santa Barbara, he is retired from the precision optics equipment industry.

Customer Reviews

Baja Missions
A very good guide to the missions of Baja. Have had very little problem finding the missions from the coordinates given in the book. Excellent photography.

Baja Sur : Life before resorts
This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of Baja California Sur, giving you a window onto what life was like for the indians and missionaries in those wild deserts and mountains long before the age of the resorts.

A beautiful photographic study
A beautiful 300-page book on the missions of Baja California. Scores of color photographs make it delight to peruse. The historical anecdotes, and the great maps and plans, and older black-and-white pictures enhance the reading experience and help convey how the missions grew, flourished, and in some cases returned to the rocks and soil from which they came. This is such a detailed and impressive labor of love and such a sincere work of scholarship, I have no trouble forgiving the author his few typos or locational inaccuracies. The book will long grace my coffee table and delight and inspire my Baja aficionado friends. I have visited many of these Baja missions and look forward now to visiting the rest