Baja California missions : in the footsteps of the padres / text by David Burckhalter ; photographs by David Burckhalter and Mina Sedgwick ; foreword by Bernard L. Fontana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burckhalter, David L.

Series:

Southwest Center series.

The Southwest Center series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish mission buildings--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula).

Spanish mission buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bathed in desert light and shadow, rising up from the earth in improbable, faraway places, stand eight original Spanish missions on Mexico's Baja California peninsula.Built of stone by Roman Catholic priests and indigenous laborers in the eighteenth century, these stunning missions dominate the landscape around them.

Contents:

The setting : Baja California geography

Introduction

Hernán Cortés and the discovery of Baja California

Early attempts to colonize Baja California

Establishing the Baja California Missions

Baja California Missions time-line

The intact Eighteenth-Century churches of Baja California

Misión Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, 1697

Misión San Francisco Javier Viggé Biaundó, 1699

Misión Santa Rosalía de Mulegé, 1705

Misión San José de Comondú, 1708

Misión San Ignacio de Kadakaamán, 1728

Misión San Luis Gonzaga Chiriyaqui, 1737

Misión Santa Gertrudis de Cadacamán, 1751

Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac, 1762

Looking back at the Baja California Missions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8165-9997-1

OCLC:

841912510