Following the Royal Road: A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

Description

Author: Jackson, Hal

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 2006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper and lower front cover corners are slightly creased, bowing.  Upper rear cover corner has an approx. 1/4″ bump, with the bump extending through at least half the book.  Light edge wear.

Notes: History, geography cum travelogue.  Reversing the usual Mexico City to Santa Fe route, Jackson starts in Santa Fe with a side trip to San Juan Pueblo and the Española valley, Juan de Oñate’s original “capital”, and travels south through Mexico.  Highway numbers, mileage, rest areas and overnight accommodations, areas of interest give this the guidebook feel.  Lots of black-and-white photographs, lots of nicely detailed maps (courtesy of Jackson, the geographer).