The seven states of California
Subtitle: a natural and human history
By: Philip L. Fradkin ; with photographs by the author.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt and Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: California -- Description and travel; California -- Geography
Description: In The Seven States of California, Philip Fradkin divides California into seven distinct ecological and cultural provinces - from the hot deserts and high peaks that mirror the Southwest and the Rockies to the rain forests, the farmlands that feed a nation, the Maine-like rocky coast, the sandy beaches, and the cold steppes.

From each he selects one emblematic feature - a chain of dry lakes, and ocean inlet, an earthquake fault, a river - upon which to hang a series of linked stories about natural objects and human characters as dissimilar as Native Americans and ranchers, missile scientists and dam builders, movie actors and real estate developers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-453) and index.
"A John Macrae book."