Bouncing Down to Baja by Bill & Orv Wortman 1954 ~ Scarce ~ Mexico Jeep Travel in Baja California Peninsula: Hollywood buying to Mazatlan

Title: Bouncing Down to Baja

Author: Bill and Orv Wortman

Description: Maroon cloth boards; gilt stamped spine. Map endpapers showing the route taken. Interior is clean and unmarked. Sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs. ix, 200 pages. Dust jacket has major loss to its rear panel; shallow chipping to tail of spine and corners; closed horizontal tears on spine; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve.

A rare copy of this Baja Peninsula travelogue, being the daily account of the journey made by the Wortmans in an old military Jeep, traveling from their home in North Hollywood, California, to Mazatlan during the months of June and July (presumably 1954).

From the jacket: ''...the authors take the reader into the strange and little known villages, ranchos, and natural settings of this slender and forbidding finger of land, and with engaging frankness and charm they pry open the lives and habits of the warm-hearted and hospitable natives... This is the book for both arm-chair tourist and most hardened and confirmed Jeepster.''

Orville Wortman (1902-1975), who did the driving, was a veteran of World War II and, later in life, was in charge of the lights at the Hollywood Bowl. His wife, Mary ''Bill' Wortman (1907-1998), the chronicler of their Baja journey, was a graduate of the College of Wooster ('28). They buying retired to Manzanillo, Mexico, in the 1960s.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fair

Publisher: Westernlore Press
Place: Los Angeles
Year: 1954

Keywords: travel, travelogue, Jeep, Jeepster, Mexico, Baja California, Baja Peninsula,