num_pages: 294
description: "The Brave Wild Coast" is the first eye-witness account of Henry Miller's sojourn on California's Big Sur coast—the years of "The Rosy Crucifixion"—and of the novelist's marriage with his third wife, Marta Lepska. Miller, the idol of the young poet who came to live for a year in the Big Sur non-colony (and briefly to share a cabin with Henry), emerges as neither idol nor villain, but as a man both courteous and vain, thoughtless and magnanimous, wise and naive. In episodes sometimes poignant, often hilarious, the book also shows us a post-bohemian, pre-hippie community practicing an ethos of freedom—which included the nude bathing at Murphy's Hot Springs, now the heart of Esalen Institute, of which Crews was briefly the caretaker.
language: English
title: The Brave Wild Coast: A Year With Henry Miller
titlecomplete: The Brave Wild Coast: A Year With Henry Miller
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Dumont Press