Our Favorite Mexico Books Part 2

Scroll throught this page for a complete Recommended Reading list. Click on a Bookshelf Topic below to jump to its page in the Reviews sections. Links from individual book titles will take you to a review of that book. Click on any book cover and you'll jump either to its review or to that book at Amazon.com or Powell's Bookstore, where you can then buy the book or read more reviews.

Lorena's Note: This list has gotten so long as I am updating it, I have had to break it into two parts.

Guidebooks

•The People's Guide to Mexico

Live and Retire in Mexico

Driving

•Traveler's Guide To Mexican Camping, by Mike & Terry Church
•Traveler's Guide to Camping Mexico's Baja: Explore Baja and Puerto Penasco with Your RV or Tent, by Mike & Terry Church
•The People’s Guide to Camping, Backpacking & Boating in Mexico, by Carl Franz & Lorena Havens
•The People's Guide to RV Camping, by Carl Franz, Steve Rogers & Lorena Havens
•RVing in Mexico, Central America and Panama, by John S Plaxton, Elizabeth A Plaxton (Photographer)
Moon Baja RV Camping, by Laura Martone

Adventures

•Mexico Trails: Your Adventure Guide to 43 Short Hikes and Walking Trails in Mexico, by Gerry Recksiedler...
•Bicycling Mexico by Ericka Weisbroth & Eric Ellman
•Backcountry Mexico: A Traveler's Guide and Phrase Book by Bob Burleson, David H. Riskind (Photographer)
•A Hiker’s Guide to Mexico’s Natural History
•Mexico: Adventures in Nature by Ron Mader...

Natural Mexico

•A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California by Ann Zwinger
•On the Road to Tetlama: Mexican Adventures of a Wandering Naturalist by Jim Conrad
Plants
•A Handbook of Mexican Roadside Flora by Charles T. Mason Jr. and Patricia B. Mason...
•Gathering the Desert by Gary Nabhan...
•Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibers of Arid America, by Ebeling
•A Flower Lover's Guide to Mexico, by Phil Clark
•Mexican Flowering Trees and Plants, by Helen O'Gorman
•Exotic Plants, by Julia F Morton
•Tropical Blossoms of the Caribbean, by Dorothy & Bob Hargreaves
•Tropical Trees and Tropical Blossoms of the Caribbean, by Dorothy & Bob Hargreaves
•Baja California Plant Field Guide, by Norman Roberts
Birds
•Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Central America by L. Irby Davis...

Birds of Belize, (The Corrie Herring Hooks Series), by Dana Gardner...
Fish & Sealife
•Fishes of the Pacific Coast: Alaska to Peru, Including the Gulf of California
•Fishes of the Atlantic Coast: Canada to Brazil, Including the Gulf of Mexico
•Reef Fish Identification: Baja to Panama, by Ned DeLoach
•Whales and Other Marine Mammals of California and Baja, by Tamara Eder
•Sea of Cortez Marine Animals: A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates Baja California to Panama, by Daniell W. Gotshall
Other Creatures
•Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California
•Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatan, and Belize, by Jonathan A. Campbell
•A Guide to the Reptiles of Belize, by Peter J. Stafford & John R. Meyer

Healthy Living in Mexico

•Staying Healthy In Asia, Africa, and Latin America by Dirk G. Schroeder...
•Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner, Carol Thuman, Jane Maxwell...
•Spas & Hot Springs of Mexico By "Mexico" Mike Nelson...

Shopping

•Oaxaca Crafts and Sightseeing by Barbara Hopkins
•The Shoppers Guide to Mexico by Steve Rogers & Tina Rosa

Food: Cooking & Eating

•Good Food in Mexico City: A Guide to Food Stalls, Fondas and Fine Dining by Nicholas Gilman

•Diana Kennedy's The Essential Cuisines of Mexico, paperback. Hardback

Speaking Spanish

History

•The Life and Times of Pancho Villa, Freidrich Katz
•Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico by William H. Beezley...
•The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas
•Many Mexicos by Lesly Byrd Simpson

•Quest For The Lost City by Dana and Ginger Lamb
•Enchanted Vagabonds by Lamb and Cleveland
•A Vagabond in Mexico by S. Guzmán-C
•A Small Mexican World by Spratling
•Viva Mexico! a Traveller’s Account of Life in Mexico by Charles Flandrau
•The Mexicans: A Personal Portrait of a People by Patrick Oster
•The Volcanoes from Puebla by Kenneth Gangemi
•Travelers’ Tales: Mexico by James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger
•Face to Face with the Mexicans by Fancis Gardiner Gooch
•The Man Who Likes Mexico by Wallace Gillpatrick
•The Three Pigs: Los Tres Cerdos by Bobbi Salinas
•Where the Strange Roads Go Down by Mary Del Villar, Fred Del Villar, Mary Del Villar & Susan Hardy Aiken
•The Bakery of the Three Whores (poetry) by James
•Old Mother Mexico by Harry Carr
•God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre, Richard Grant
•The Apache Diaries: A Father-son Journey, Goodwin & Goodwin
•Trail of Feathers: Searching for Phillip True, Robert Rivard
•In the Sierra Madre, Jeff Biggers
•Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopheer McDougall

•The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C. M. Mayo...
•King of The Moon
•Rain of Gold by Victor E. Villasenor
•Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
•Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
•Gringos by Charles Portis
•The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
•Aztec by Gary Jennings
•The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by Bruno Traven
•Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan by Rosy Hugener

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