A Wild Coast and Lonely
Author | : Rosalind Sharpe Wall |
Publisher | : Wide World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rosalind Sharpe Wall |
Publisher | : Wide World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rosalind S. Wall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780946544523 |
Author | : Wall |
Publisher | : Wide World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993-01-15 |
Genre | : Big Sur Region (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780933174832 |
The Beauty of the Big Sur coast is legend. Thousands visit it each year on their way from San Francisco to Los Angeles. But as the fame of Big Sur has spread, its colorful pioneer history has been largely forgotten. The once isolated, sombre and mysterious landscape, made famous by narrative poems of Robinson Jeffers, has disappeared along with tales of feuds and murders. Rosalind Wall, a native herself, shares her memories and knowledge of its colorful past. She tells of the old timers and homesteaders that first settled the area and does so in a richly engrossing narrative.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Haibun |
ISBN | : 9781903543344 |
Author | : Shelley Alden Brooks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520294424 |
Jeffers' Country -- Nature's highway -- Big Sur: utopia, U.S.A.? -- Open-space at continent's end -- The influence of the counter-culture, community, and State -- The "battle" for Big Sur, or debating the national environmental ethic -- Defining the value of California's coastline -- Epilogue: millionaires and beaches: the socio-political economics of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century
Author | : James Karman |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1025 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804794774 |
This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F. Kennedy. Robinson Jeffers published four important books during this period—Be Angry at the Sun (1941), Medea (1946), The Double Axe (1948), and Hungerfield (1954). He also faced changes to his hometown village of Carmel, experienced the rewards of being a successful dramatist in the United States and abroad, and endured the loss of his wife Una. Jeffers' letters, and those of Una written in the decade prior to her death, offer a vivid chronicle of the life and times of a singular and visionary poet.
Author | : Lawrence Hogue |
Publisher | : Shearwater Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2000-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"All the wild and lonely places, the mountain springs are called now. They were not lonely or wild places in the past days. They were the homes of my people." --Chief Francisco Patencio, the Cahuilla of Palm Springs The Anza-Borrego Desert on California's southern border is a remote and harsh landscape, what author Lawrence Hogue calls "a land of dreams and nightmares, where the waking world meets the fantastic shapes and bent forms of imagination." In a country so sere and rugged, it's easy to imagine that no one has ever set foot there -- a wilderness waiting to be explored. Yet for thousands of years, the land was home to the Cahuilla and Kumeyaay Indians, who, far from being the "noble savages" of European imagination, served as active caretakers of the land that sustained them, changing it in countless ways and adapting it to their own needs as they adapted to it.In All the Wild and Lonely Places, Lawrence Hogue offers a thoughtful and evocative portrait of Anza-Borrego and of the people who have lived there, both original inhabitants and Spanish and American newcomers -- soldiers, Forty-Niners, cowboys, canal-builders, naturalists, recreationists, and restorationists. We follow along with the author on a series of excursions into the desert, each time learning more about the region's history and why it calls into question deeply held beliefs about "untouched" nature. And we join him in considering the implications of those revelations for how we think about the land that surrounds us, and how we use and care for that land."We could persist in seeing the desert as an emptiness, a place hostile to humans, a pristine wilderness," Hogue writes. "But it's better to see this as a place where ancient peoples tried to make their homes, and succeeded. We can learn from what they did here, and use that knowledge to reinvigorate our concept of wildness. Humans are part of nature; it's still nature, even when we change it."
Author | : Dayton Lummis |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1450224342 |
VANISHING POINT is an eclectic collection of the authors writings ranging from short fiction pieces, and a disturbing account of a difficult period in early 1960s San Francisco, to personal observations in the first years of the 21st century. There are brief vignettes that capture aspects of the American character, from positive to cynically critical. Throughout the volume the author writes with crisp insight, humor, and occasional existential despair, which adds up to a unique American story
Author | : Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2001-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1462828868 |
DOING IT WITH THE COSMOS: HENRY MILLERS BIG SUR STRUGGLE FOR LOVE BEYOND SEX explores the evolving pantheistic vision and agonizing personal relationships of this rogue elephant of American literature. After years of exclusive conversations with people who knew Miller when he lived in Big Sur, the author concludes that, contrary to a popular mindset, Miller was not an apostle of gratuitous playboy sex. On the contrary, his books detail the mans tortuous efforts to integrate impulsive urges that were wholly beyond control into a higher, more spiritual, form of love that may, or may not, include sex. His message: "We dont have to make [the earth] a paradise. It is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it ... Love is not a game, its a state of being." This book is a unique introduction to one of Americas most controversial literary greats, tracing his spiritual development from its shaky beginnings in Paris through its expansion in Greece to its culmination in Big Sur. The book not only serves as a manual of happiness, it is a caveat for people planning to play house together. Millers ultimtely joyful Nature wisdom, is an antidote for what ails an entire generation of restive, sex and violence-inundated Americans.
Author | : Scott A. Shields |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2006-04-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520247396 |
"From 1875 to the first years of the twentieth century, artists were drawn to the towns of Monterey, Pacific Grove, and then Carmel. Artist at Continent's End is the first in-depth examination of the importance of the Monterey Peninsula, which during this period came to epitomize California art. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of images, including many never before published, this book tells the fascinating story of eight principal protagonists--Jules Tavernier, William Keith, Charles Rollo Peters, Arthur Mathews, Evelyn McCormick, Francis McComas, Gottardo Piazzoni, and photographer Arnold Genthe--and a host of secondary players who together established an enduring artistic legacy."--prospectus.