Into the Heart of California [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Barich, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679760350 ISBN 13: 9780679760351

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1995

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NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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opportunity, a golden Eden, the last frontier. What is this place that has given rise to countless metaphors but can still quicken the imagination? For Bill Barich, the question became a quest when he realized that home was no longer New York, where he had grown up, but California, to which he had been lured twenty years earlier. Now, in this account of his journey through California, he captures the true nature of the state behind the stereotypes.

From the fogbound fishing towns of the North to the Mexican port of entry at San Ysidro, Barich describes an amazing diversity among people who have staked a claim to California's promise. He introduces us to a Native American hairdresser and the head priest of a Sikh temple; we meet loggers, bikers, an aging lifeguard, and the prison warden whose job it is to keep Charles Manson behind bars. He follows the traces of John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Disney, and Ronald Reagan, and weighs the impact their dreams have had on the rest of us.

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679760350
• ISBN 13: 9780679760351
• Einband: Tapa blanda