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Author | : Mark Arax |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1101875216 |
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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.
Author | : A. Starker Leopold |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2023-12-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520310594 |
Download Wild California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The universal spread of civilization has encompassed the wildness of California. While some of the original ecosystems have been preserved, others have been reduced to tattered remnants. Rich and varied habitats, with their plants and animals, are gone forever, destroyed by the conversion of valley lands to agriculture, the damming of streams, the cutting of forests, the paving of meadows. Wild California makes a persuasive argument for identifying and protecting areas of unspoiled California before they disappear. This is a stunning photographic guide to the six major California regions--from the Sierra Nevada to the desert--and their wildlife. To A. Starker Leopold, conservationist, naturalist, wildlife biologist, and educator, the delicate balance between plants, animals, and humans in each community is precious and fragile. In a highly readable style that mingles authority and eloquence, Leopold reminds us of th aesthetic, educational, and scientific values of undeveloped land. Tupper Ansel Blake, naturalist and wildlife photographer, has contributed one hundred color images that marvelously convey the special beauties of this state. Fortunately, the rich legacy of early California can still be found, and Tupper Blake's images with Starker Leopold's words are powerful evidence that this wilderness is worth preserving for future generations.
Author | : W.W. Robinson |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5877751794 |
Download Land in California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads
Author | : Rebecca Fish Ewan |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000-12-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801864612 |
Download A Land Between Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Land Between tells the stories of the people who have lived in the valley and uncovers the marks they have left on the land.
Author | : Rose Marie Beebe |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2015-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806153571 |
Download Lands of Promise and Despair Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.
Author | : Samuel Trask Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Land tenure |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Forest Service. California Region |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1454 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Land use |
ISBN | : |
Download California Rural Land Use and Management Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Forest Service. California Region |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Download California Rural Land Use and Management Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Bureau of Land Management. California State Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Land use |
ISBN | : |
Download California Public Lands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Damon B. Akins |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520976886 |
Download We Are the Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.