MexWX: Mexico Weather for Boaters covers Baja, the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific coast of Mexico. How to plan your boating itinerary to take advantage of weather patterns; What local WX phenomenon to watch out for (Screaming Blue Northers, Elefantes, Chubascos); How to use your boat s radios and computers to receive those important WX forecasts in Mexican waters even by email when offshore; Summering Over in the Tropics; Hurricane Season & Hurricane Holes; Tactics for the Gulf of Tehuantepec & Papagallo; fully indexed. Updated, expanded 3rd edition (early 2008) packs more facts, new photos and improved graphics into this concise publication; includes a handy new quick-reference Frequency Guide for VHF, Ham, SSB, WX-fax and Internet. Author Capt. Pat Rains picks up the WX and brings it right to your boat in Pacific Mexico. MexWX is a must-have reference for recreational sportfishers, motoryachts, trailer-boat skippers and all cruising sailors who visit Mexican waters.

Mexico is a heady sort of place; it inundates you with sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations. A dry text, no matter how informative, just doesn't do justice to Mexico's allure. DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide series, on the other hand, does. Sure, it provides the necessary data points. The "Travelers' Needs" section contains 168 recommended hotel options and another 168 restaurants--as well as a beautifully illustrated guide to the foods of Mexico. And there are pages of practical information on visas, health precautions, time zones, electricity, taxis, security, banking, communications, and the like.

But DK's guide provides far more inspirational than a mere collection of data. The two-page glossy color map of Mexico is not just clear and easy to understand, it's beautiful. The hundreds of color photographs throughout the book are exquisite, depicting the sere hilltop archeological site of Monte Alban, fishermen preparing nets on a Yucatan beach, the vibrancy of a fruit market in San Cristobal de las Casas, the green lushness of the wetlands, the scrub of the Sonora desert, and the intense vegetation of the Tehuantepec rainforests. There are 3-D aerial-view layouts of towns and ancient sites, cutaways and floor plans for churches and pyramids, as well as wonderful explanatory texts for each region, delving into history, traditions, sights, fiestas, foods, music, and activities. DK's is a guide book that is actually a pleasure to use--one that adds excitement to the necessary task of planning your vacation.

2US021R Covers: Point Arena to Puerto Vallarta, including Mendocino, San Francisco Bay, Channel Islands, San Diego, and the Baja Peninsula. General coverage for the Mexican coast, including Mazatlan, Acapulco and Salina Cruz. BlueChart G2 Compatible Units: GPSMAP 298 GPSMAP398 GPSMAP 498 GPSMAP 392 GPSMAP 492 GPSMAP 378c GPSMAP 478c GPSMAP 2106c GPSMAP 2110c GPSMAP 2206c GPSMAP 2210c GPSMAP 3205c GPSMAP 3206c GPSMAP 3210c

Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado.

Features include:
- Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there
- Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more
- Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations
- The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers

Starred Review. Mammologist and paleontologist Flannery (The Eternal Frontier), who in recent years has become well known for his controversial ideas on conservation, the environment and population control, presents a straightforward and powerfully written look at the connection between climate change and global warming. It's destined to become required reading following Hurricane Katrina as the focus shifts to the natural forces that may have produced such a devastating event. Much of the book's success is rooted in Flannery's succinct and fascinating insights into related topics, such as the differences between the terms greenhouse effect, global warming and climate change, and how the El Nino cycle of extreme climatic events "had a profound re-organising effect on nature." But the heart of the book is Flannery's impassioned look at the earth's "colossal" carbon dioxide pollution problem and his argument for how we can shift from our current global reliance on fossil fuels [...]. Flannery consistently produces the hard goods related to his main message that our environmental behavior makes us all "weather makers" who "already possess all the tools required to avoid catastrophic climate change."