Title Napa at last light : America's Eden in an age of calamity / James Conaway.

Publication Info.	New York : Simon and Schuster, [2018]
	©2018

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Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction	FOOD—DRINKS—WINE—Conaway	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	338.4 CONAWAY	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	338.4766 CONAWAY	Check Shelf

Edition	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description	xxvi, 308 pages ; map ; 24 cm
Note	Includes index.
Contents	I. This earth is theirs: Master and slave ; White elephants ; The legacy thing -- II. Carrying the defect: Interlude: The velvet rope ; American first-growth ; Hands across the sea ; Orwell's plow -- III. Village and vine: Interlude: Uber ; Bubbly ; Our town ; Alive on arrival -- IV. On Howell Mountain: Interlude: The sanctity of stuff ; Waiting for fire ; Wildlake ; The death of shame -- V. Capell Creek: Interlude: Arise ; The riddled rabbit ; The grandmother tree ; Enocracy -- VI. Water into wine: Interlude: The drip ; The Rutheford Dust Society ; Fifty feet from forever ; Chinatown -- VII. Life in the Anthropocene: Interlude: The plea ; Voices ; 2050 ; Jefferson's ghost ; Wildlake revisited.
Summary	Exposes the often shadowy side of the winemaking industry in Napa Valley, where multinational corporations have subsumed old family vineyards and abandoned the agricultural traditions of the region.
Subject	Wine and wine making -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.
	Wine and wine making -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.
	Wine industry -- California -- Napa Valley -- History -- 21st century.
	Wine industry -- Social aspects -- California -- Napa Valley.
	Napa Valley (Calif.) -- History -- 21st century.
	Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Napa Valley (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness.
	COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic.
	HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Wine and wine making. (OCoLC)fst01175907
	Wine and wine making -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01175935
	Wine industry. (OCoLC)fst01175961
	Wine industry -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01175979
	California -- Napa Valley. (OCoLC)fst01273793
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	America's Eden in an age of calamity
ISBN	9781501128455 (hardcover)
	1501128450 (hardcover)
	9781501128479 (ebook)

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