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050 00 $aF861$b.F75 1995
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100 1 $aFradkin, Philip L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80162644
245 14 $aThe seven states of California :$ba natural and human history /$cPhilip L. Fradkin.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bH. Holt and Co.,$c1995.
263 $a9507
300 $axix, 474 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A John Macrae book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aFrom 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.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018870
651 0 $aCalifornia$xGeography.
852 00 $bglx$hF861$i.F75 1995