Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills, and Streams; Its Animals, Birds, and Fishes; Its Gardens, Farms, and Climate

Theodore S. Van Dyke

Verlag: Fords, Howard, & Hulbrt / Samuel carson & Co., San Francisco, 1886

Beschreibung

Van Dyke, Theodore S. Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills, and Streams; Its Animals, Birds, and Fishes; Its Gardens, Farms, and Climate (New York / San Francisco: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert / Samuel Carson & Co., 1886). Green cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt grape designs on front cover and spine; xii, 13-233, [7] pp; the last seven unnumbered pages are ads for other books by the author and publisher. Front hinge slightly cracked, but still strong; some wear at top of headband; o/w in VG+ condition. [23-135] A resident of Southern California, Theodore S. Van Dyke (1842-1923) was the author of The Rifle, Rod, and Gun in California and other outdoor books and articles. Of this book on Southern California, one of the publisher?s ads in the rear cites several review comments, such as that of the San Francisco Chronicle: ?Without question the best book which has been written on the Southern Counties of California?May be commended without any of the usual reservations.? The New York Times review stated ?A variety of topics are presented, some of interest to the pleasure seekers, others to those who would find in Southern California means of livelihood or health. We have yet to read any book wherein a more careful and thorough resume is presented of the climate of Southern California, a question so vital to invalids?Very beautifully does the author describe the sequence of the seasons in Southern California and the flowers which sing of these gradual changes.? Van Dyke, in the Preface, writes, ?In an age when the study of Nature has become the most popular of all subjects, no apology seems needed for a book treating of a land where the leading features of animate and inanimate nature are quite unknown to the great majority of those who love fresh fields and pastures new. To many who live in Southern California, its fields, streams, and mountains are the country?s powerful charm, and they hold here in bondage many of its best and wealthiest citizens. Yet, outside of the residents the knowledge of them is comparatively slight, and the present writer is the only one who has thus far touched upon them to any extent, - nearly all of the literature about California treating only of its advantages for settlers?The main object of this work is to describe the natural, out-of-door attractions of Southern California?[People] are fast filling the habitable parts of this southern land with homes such as no other part of the word can show, and the end of their work o man can foresee. Yet, while cities, homes, and gardens arise, and the productions of the land increase I number and importance in the world of trade and traffic, still to the end of time Southern California will be a land chiefly characterized by its climate, scenery, and out-of-door attractions.?. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000568

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Titel: Southern California: Its Valleys, Hills, and...

Verlag: Fords, Howard, & Hulbrt / Samuel carson & Co., San Francisco

Erscheinungsdatum: 1886

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good