MOON HANDBOOKS NORTHERN MEXICO
INCLUDING THE COPPER CANYON

With Moon Handbooks Northern Mexico, readers will learn where to relax on white-sand beaches, tropical lagoons, and islands off Sonora, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas; hike the majestic cloud forests of the Sierra Madre Oriental; journey through largely undiscovered river canyons in Durango and Chihuahua; ride the spectacular "Copper Canyon" Chihuahua al Pacifico train across the Sierra Madre Occidental; visit Huastec villages and hidden waterfalls in San Luis Potosí; and marvel at Mexico's finest baroque cathedral architecture in Zacatecas.

• Details on shopping for rebozos in Santa María del Río and attending traditional Semana Santa rituals
   among the Tarahumara
• The nitty-gritty on canyon hiking, off-road driving, cycling, surfing, fishing, and other recreational activities
• Extensive coverage of dining, lodging, and camping opportunities

Moon Handbooks Northern Mexico
2nd Edition
Joe Cummings
ISBN 1-56691-118-4
$17.95
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Joe Cummings was born in New Orleans and raised in California, France, Texas, and Washington, D.C. He spent a good part of his childhood in San Antonio, Texas, where he ate his first taco in the 1960s during one of his family's frequent Mexican border town visits. After that he always preferred tacos to burgers, so his mom had to learn how to make them—well ahead of the Mexican food craze that would sweep across America in the 1970s.
   Joe's love of Tex-Mex border culture drew him deeper into Mexico, where he explored the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts and the famed Copper Canyon, to research and write Moon Handbooks Northern Mexico. He took an epic road trip down Baja's Transpeninsular Highway in 1991 to write Moon Handbooks Baja. Impressed by the juxtaposition of history, nature, and solitude that suited his restless spirit, he eventually built a Baja hideout five minutes from the Pacific Ocean.
   In addition to authoring Moon Handbooks to Baja, Cabo, Mexico, Mexico City, Northern Mexico, and Texas, Joe has written numerous other guidebooks, phrasebooks, and atlases for countries around the world. As a freelance journalist, Joe has also contributed to dozens of periodicals, including Ambassador, BBC Holidays, Car & Travel, Geographical, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Los Angeles Times, Outside, San Francisco Examiner, South China Morning Post, Via, and The Wall Street Journal. He has twice received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award, and twice been a finalist in London's Thomas Cook Guidebook of the Year awards. In 2001, the government of Mexico awarded the Pluma de Plata (Silver Quill) to Joe for "outstanding foreign journalism" on Mexico. Joe divides his time between homes in Baja and Thailand.

Other travel guides authored by Joe Cummings:
Moon Handbooks Baja
Moon Handbooks Cabo
Moon Handbooks Mexico
Moon Handbooks Mexico City
Moon Handbooks Texas