It provides helpful descriptions of local tours and how to find a local guide. Birders will find the text a colorful and insightful addition to any checklist. The book has a useful bibliography and index, but no resource list of groups or individuals working in Mexico. This is a recommended title, by the Conords whose Adventure Guide to the Yucatan is a favorite. This book delivers what is promises.
Descriptions are lively and the info first-rate.
Includes side trips to Lake Chapala and San Blas. But something doesn't click. As an example, he uses Hernan Cortes who burned his ships on the coast of Mexico to force his soldiers to forge ahead in the conquest of Mexico. The only problem in this book is the exclusion of articles or references that cast the maquiladoras in a positive light. Good intentions are again behind a book.