The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780520209428, 9780520209428
Author
Philip L Fradkin
Pages
494
Year of production
1997
What explains California? To a large extent, as Philip Fradkin"s rich, exuberant portrait makes clear, it"s the multiple landscapes and the different states of mind that best define America"s most populous, diverse, and fabled state. Fradkin divides California into seven distinct ecological and cultural provinces--from the hot deserts and high peaks to the rich agricultural Central Valley, the redwood forests of the north and sandy beaches of the south. Describing geographical regions based on their emblematic landscape features, Fradkin intertwines natural and social history.