What explains California? To a large extent, as Philip Fradkin's rich, exuberant portrait makes clear, it's the multiple landscapes and the different states of mind that best define America's most populous, diverse, and fabled state. Fradkin 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.
- ISBN10 0520919378
- ISBN13 9780520919372
- Publish Date 12 April 1997 (first published 1 June 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 474
- Language English