The California Coast
Subtitle: A Literary Field Guide (Stories from Where We Live)
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: March 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781571316530
Subjects: History - United States/State & Local; Science & Nature - General; Miscellanea; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Biography; Pacific Coast; Juvenile Nonfiction; Juvenile literature; Children: Grades 4-6; Juvenile Nonfiction / Travel; American literature; Natural history; Pacific Coast (Calif.); People & Places - United States; California
First sentence: Young George Erskine worked at a shipyard in Thomaston, Maine, hewing giant logs into spars and ribs for schooners and clipper ships that sailed all around the world.