California exposures : envisioning myth and history /
An enthralling guided tour of California's past, conjured with originality, insight and wit by a brilliant historian. Layers of the past swirl like ocean mist around the abandoned buildings of D Ranch at Point Reyes, the absence of trees in the starkly beautiful landscape speaks of early tenant...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | An enthralling guided tour of California's past, conjured with originality, insight and wit by a brilliant historian. Layers of the past swirl like ocean mist around the abandoned buildings of D Ranch at Point Reyes, the absence of trees in the starkly beautiful landscape speaks of early tenant workers who did not expect to stay long. A vista of Drake's Estero conjures the darkly amusing story of the Drake Navigator's Guild and its dubious effort to establish an Anglo-Saxon heritage for California. A placid riverside park in the fertile Tulare Lake Basin belies scenes of horror in the 1850s as settlers transformed an Indian homeland into American property. A Gilded Age story of real-estate boosterism and connivance is set amidst the industrial rubble of Corcoran. And the missions open sightlines into a still-vital Spanish, Mexican, and Californio past. Capturing the passage of time through a combination of photography and powerful companion narratives, this book presents California's history in resonant, astonishing detail. |
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| Physical Description: | 326 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393243062 0393243060 |