Description
What explains California? To a large extent, as this text makes clear, it’s the multiple landscapes and the different states of mind that best define America’s most populous, diverse and fabled state. The book 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.
