Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520294424ISBN-10:520294424UPC:9780520294424Book Category:History, Nature, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Environmental Conservation & Protection, DevelopmentBook Topic:State & Local, Economic DevelopmentSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCYHDN6SEW
Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape
Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultrawealthy. This transformation was due in part to writers and artists such as Robinson Jeffers and Ansel Adams, who created an enduring mystique...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520294424ISBN-10:520294424UPC:9780520294424Book Category:History, Nature, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Environmental Conservation & Protection, DevelopmentBook Topic:State & Local, Economic DevelopmentSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCYHDN6SEW
Shelley Alden Brooks teaches twentieth-century U.S., California, and environmental history at the University of California, Davis. She also works for the California History-Social Science Project and serves on the statewide Environmental Literacy Steering Committee.
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