| Description |
1 online resource (x, 115 pages, 109 unnumbered of plates) : color illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107) and index. |
| Contents |
Coastal memories -- The wild coast -- The agricultural coast -- The residential coast -- The tourist coast -- The recreational coast -- The industrial coast -- The military coast -- The political coast. |
| Summary |
Philip L. Fradkin, one of California's most acclaimed environmental historians, felt drawn to the coast as soon as he arrived in California in 1960. His first book, California: The Golden Coast, captured the wonder of the shoreline's natural beauty along with the controversies it engendered. In The Left Coast, the author and his photographer son Alex Fradkin revisit some of the same places they explored together in the early 1970s. From their written and visual approaches, this father-son team brings a unique generational perspective to the subject. Mixing history, geography, interviews, perso. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Fradkin, Philip L. -- Travel -- California.
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Fradkin, Alex (Alex Leon), 1966- -- Travel -- California.
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California -- Description and travel.
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Coasts -- California.
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California -- History.
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Natural history -- California.
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History.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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United States, West. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Fradkin, Alex (Alex Leon), 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fradkin, Philip L. Left coast. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011 9780520255098 (DLC) 2010035056 (OCoLC)659413037 |
| ISBN |
9780520948778 (electronic bk.) |
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0520948777 (electronic bk.) |
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