Beyond the Mexique Bay is a book of travel essays by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1934.
Huxley and his wife, Maria, left Liverpool in January 1933, and traveled to the West Indies on the cruise ship Britannic.
They left the ship in Kingston, Jamaica,[1] and traveled through British Honduras and Guatemala, where they persuaded coffee plantation owner Roy Fenton to take them by mule to his land in Mexico.
The coffee plantation visit, and many other stories Huxley recorded in Beyond the Mexique Bay, would be later fictionalized in Eyeless in Gaza.
[3] A major theme of Beyond the Mexique Bay was Huxley's critique of totalitarianism and fascism, in particular Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany; in one essay, Huxley described the Nazi regime as "a rebellion against Western civilization.".