The Seven States of California - by Philip L Fradkin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Philip Fradkin's work is full of foresight, good sense, and an understanding of the ties between social and environmental dilemmas. Taking Fradkin's writing seriously is an important step in figuring out the American West today."--Patricia Nelson Limerick<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What explains California? To a large extent, as Philip Fradkin's rich, exuberant portrait makes clear, it's the multiple landscapes and the different states of mind that best define America's most populous, diverse, and fabled state. Fradkin divides California into seven distinct ecological and cultural provinces-from the hot deserts and high peaks to the rich agricultural Central Valley, the redwood forests of the north and sandy beaches of the south. Describing geographical regions based on their emblematic landscape features, Fradkin intertwines natural and social history.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Philip Fradkin's work is full of foresight, good sense, and an understanding of the ties between social and environmental dilemmas. Taking Fradkin's writing seriously is an important step in figuring out the American West today.--Patricia Nelson Limerick<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"With the light, revealing touch of a master reporter, Fradkin ("Wanderings of an Environmental Journalist, 1993, etc.) takes the Golden State's measure, top to bottom."--"Kirkus Reviews<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Philip Fradkin</b> is the author of six highly acclaimed books on the American West, including the newly updated <i>A River No More</i> (California, 1996). A former environmental writer for the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, he also served as Assistant Secretary of the California Resources Agency, as Western editor for <i>Audubon</i> magazine, and has taught nonfiction writing at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He shared in a Pulitzer prize awarded to the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> for coverage of the 1965 Watts racial conflict.
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