The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, see

This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.

Introduces the geography, history, people, and culture of the country known as the Gateway to South America.

Account of the land and its flora, both native and naturalized, and of the men and women who devoted themselves to its cultivation.