West of the West
Subtitle: Imagining California
Contributors: David Reid (Editor); Leonard Michaels (Editor); Raquel Scherr (Editor)
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: March 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780060973643
First sentence: From San Francisco south, the coastline extends in a north-south direction until Point Conception is reached at latitude 34.30 degrees; then the line swerves abruptly east and the shoreline begins to face almost due south.