The story of this journey through northern Baja California's unexplored wilderness to San Diego is actually two stories, crafted by artful and incisive historia

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.