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California (On the Road Histories)

Author : Victor Silverman
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 1623710634
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book California (On the Road Histories) written by Victor Silverman and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, expansive narrative that reveals the real story of the people and places that makes up the Golden State. From the European conquest to today’s economic crisis, Californians have experienced tumultuous growth and painful conflicts. Like the grinding of tectonic plates that has produced the state’s very landscape, these encounters, disputes, and transformations have continuously made and remade California. California: On-the-Road History doesn’t relate the cleaned-up tale of the California dream that school textbooks and the tourism commission tell. Rather it presents the sometimes bitter, sometimes triumphant history behind the California myth. Included are recommended museums, state parks, and other attractions, alongside literary excerpts from local authors who give readers a sense of California in different eras.

Ridge Route

Author : Harrison Irving Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615120003
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ridge Route written by Harrison Irving Scott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a step back into time and the history of California's Scenic Ridge Route. When it opened in 1915 it was hailed as the "Magnus Opus" of mountain highway engineering. By-passed by the Ridge Alternative in 1933, it was left to the elements and all but forgotten. In this book you will visit sites like Sandberg's famous Summit Hotel where you would have seen Cadillacs, Packards and Studebakers during the road's heyday; the former site of the opulent Hotel Lebec, playground for the world's finest; the Ridge Road House; the National Forest Inn; and Kelly's Half Way House. Motorists faced 697 curves when navigating this famous moutain highway. You will follow "Ridge Route Annie's" adventurous search for gold. Read how highwaymen relieved unsuspecting motorists of their valuables and the 1922 blizzard that stranded scores of motorists. All of this in addition to early history on north - south routes and how Los Angeles had to entice the Butterfield Stage and later the Southern Pacific Railroad in Los Angeles. While this book focuses on the 1915 Scenic Ridge Route, it also addresses the 1930 Ridge Alternative, (U.S. Highway 99) and the current I-5 Ridge Route Highway.

Highway 1 California

Author : Andrea Lammert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781770859555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Highway 1 California written by Andrea Lammert and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the north, it stops in the shadow of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and towering redwood forests, in the south, it slips into the City of Angels. You can begin your trip at either end of the 656-mile (1,055-km) highway or anywhere in between. Skirting the California coastline, you will discover all that California has to offer, from the bustle and excitement of Los Angeles and the star-studded Hollywood Hills to the ultimate "City by the Bay," San Francisco. On the way, there is an overwhelming choice of where to stop, what to see and what to do: checkered winery fields, waterfalls and wildflower meadows; sky-kissing redwood forests; freshly caught seafood at every stop; beaches of sand or sparkling pebble, not to mention sea lions. Stop to watch for whales, to explore towns and historic sites; to tour elegant Santa Barbara, and the beaches and attractions of Carmel, Monterey, and Santa Cruz. The photographs, descriptions and detailed maps in this book are all you need to travel Highway 1 for as long and as far as your spirit of adventure takes you. [This book] presents the iconic road in stunning color, a vibrant testament to why California welcomes the most domestic visitors of all the states, and is consistently one of the top three states visited by international travelers. Each worthwhile stop or side trip is shown in multiple photographs, all with extended captions."--Dust jacket flaps.

The Road to Resegregation

Author : Alex Schafran
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961676
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Resegregation written by Alex Schafran and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core? This is the story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation between middle class white environmentalists and communities of color. As Alex Schafran shows, the responsibility for this newly segregated geography lies in institutions from across the region, state, and political spectrum, even as the Bay Area has never managed to build common purpose around the making and remaking of its communities, cities, and towns. Schafran closes the book by presenting paths toward a new politics of planning and development that weave scattered fragments into a more equitable and functional whole.

Coastal California

Author : Jake Rajs
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847861090
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Coastal California written by Jake Rajs and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented book showcasing the California coast via the Pacific Coast Highway and beyond. As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America—a shining promise of endless possibility. California is both dream and reality. Coastal California is for anyone who has felt the lure of a Pacific sunset. From the physical beauty of Monterey to the grandeur of Southern California, photographer Jake Rajs displays his skillful command of capturing the coastline and Pacific Ocean in every season and the land that is affected by it. Including such locations as Redwood National Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, Sausalito, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, and Pacific Palisades, Coastal California is sure to be the gift book of the year for those who feel the rush of the Pacific Coast Highway and those who just dream of it.

Alta California

Author : Nick Neely
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640091661
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Nick Neely and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle

On the Road of the Winds

Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520968891
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book On the Road of the Winds written by Patrick Vinton Kirch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue carvers of remote Easter Island, and the famed traders of Melanesia. Decades of archaeological excavations—combined with allied research in historical linguistics, biological anthropology, and comparative ethnography—have revealed much new information about the long-term history of these societies and cultures. On the Road of the Winds synthesizes the grand sweep of human history in the Pacific Islands, beginning with the movement of early people out from Asia more than 40,000 years ago and tracing the development of myriad indigenous cultures up to the time of European contact in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. This updated edition, enhanced with many new illustrations and an extensive bibliography, synthesizes the latest archaeological, linguistic, and biological discoveries that reveal the vastness of ancient history in the Pacific Islands.

The California Field Atlas

Author : Obi Kaufmann
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597144025
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The California Field Atlas written by Obi Kaufmann and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for example, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife, keys that explain natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, a bit larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place.

Competing Visions

Author : Robert Cherny
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781133943624
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Competing Visions written by Robert Cherny and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a strong social emphasis and succinct narrative, COMPETING VISIONS: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, 2E chronicles the stories of people who have had an impact on the state's history while presenting California as a hub of competing economic, social, and political visions. It highlights the state's cultural diversity and explicitly compares it to other Western states, the nation, and the world--illustrating the national and international significance of California's history. Its chronological organization and thematic approach enables readers to keep track of events and fully understand their significance. Telling the full story, the text concludes by discussing such current events as immigration and demographic changes, the Occupy Movement, energy challenges, and more.

History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sierras

Author : James Miller Guinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sierras written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs

Author : James Miller Guinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California History Nugget

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book California History Nugget written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties, California

Author : Rolin G. Watkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book History of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties, California written by Rolin G. Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Butte County, California

Author : Harry Laurenz Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book History of Butte County, California written by Harry Laurenz Wells and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California Highways

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book California Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California Highways and Public Works

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Highways and Public Works written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geologic History of the Feather River Country, California

Author : Cordell Durrell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520056914
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Geologic History of the Feather River Country, California written by Cordell Durrell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-02-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Sierra Nevada and adjacent lands come to be the size and shape they are today? This book covers 400 million years of physical evolution in a language understandable to nonscientists, tracing the volcanic activity, the folding and building of mountains, the breaking of blocks along fault lines, and the work of erosion and glaciers that have created today's dramatic landscape. Cordell Durrell spent a lifetime reading this complex story of movement and change in the rocks of the Feather River country. He shares with readers the excitement of discovering by remote but careful inference what must have happened millions upon millions of years ago. The basic methods of geologic analysis that Durrell describes can be applied anywhere on the earth's surface, lending new fascination to our travels throughout the frozen arctic, dry deserts, tropical rainforests, low swamps, and high mountains like California's magnificent Sierra.