Greetings from California

Greetings from California
Title Greetings from California PDF eBook
Author Gary Crabbe
Publisher Voyageur Press (MN)
Pages 162
Release 2011-05-13
Genre Travel
ISBN 0760337284

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A fun, fresh tribute to the Golden State, illustrated with gorgeous color photography, fascinating historical images, and cool memorabilia. Learn anew the legends, landmarks, and lore of historic sites, such as Bodie, Point Reyes, the Knights Ferry Bridge, Mission Santa Barbara, Carson Mansion in Old Town Eureka, Death Valley, Glacier Point, and Alcatraz. Delving into the people, places, and activities that have defined California through the years, this book explores all that makes California great: the Big Sur coast, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Napa Valley’s wine country, Hollywood, the redwood trees of Muir Woods, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite Valley, big game fishing, surfing, agriculture, politics, music, sports, and much, much more. Turn the pages for a visual feast of this extraordinary state!

Greetings from Southern California

Greetings from Southern California
Title Greetings from Southern California PDF eBook
Author Monica Highland
Publisher Graphic Arts Books
Pages 111
Release 1988-01-01
Genre California, Southern
ISBN 9780932575715

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Greetings from the Salton Sea

Greetings from the Salton Sea
Title Greetings from the Salton Sea PDF eBook
Author Kim Stringfellow
Publisher Center for American Places
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Environmental degradation
ISBN 9781935195320

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The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishment—agricultural runoff from surrounding farms—to water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.

Greetings from Utopia Park

Greetings from Utopia Park
Title Greetings from Utopia Park PDF eBook
Author Claire Hoffman
Publisher HarperCollins
Pages 190
Release 2016-06-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0062338862

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In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and ’90s—a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman’s alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven—Iowa—to live in Maharishi’s national headquarters for Heaven on Earth. For Claire’s mother, Transcendental Meditation—the Maharishi’s method of meditation and his approach to living the fullest possible life—was a salvo that promised world peace and enlightenment just as their family fell apart. At first this secluded utopia offers warmth and support, and makes these outsiders feel calm, secure, and connected to the world. At the Maharishi School, Claire learns Maharishi’s philosophy for living and meditates with her class. With the promise of peace and enlightenment constantly on the horizon, every day is infused with magic and meaning. But as Claire and Stacey mature, their adolescent skepticism kicks in, drawing them away from the community and into delinquency and drugs. To save herself, Claire moves to California with her father and breaks from Maharishi completely. After a decade of working in journalism and academia, the challenges of adulthood propel her back to Iowa, where she reexamines her spiritual upbringing and tries to reconnect with the magic of her childhood. Greetings from Utopia Park takes us deep into this complex, unusual world, illuminating its joys and comforts, and its disturbing problems. While there is no utopia on earth, Hoffman reveals, there are noble goals worth striving for: believing in belief, inner peace, and a firm understanding that there is a larger fabric of the universe to which we all belong.

Road Trip America

Road Trip America
Title Road Trip America PDF eBook
Author Andrew F. Wood
Publisher Collectors Press, Inc.
Pages 116
Release 2003
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9781888054743

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Describes fast-food restaurants, motels, and unique roadside attractions in each of the fifty states, and features color photos of artifacts and vintage images.

The California Monthly

The California Monthly
Title The California Monthly PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 478
Release 1919
Genre
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California's Deadliest Earthquakes

California's Deadliest Earthquakes
Title California's Deadliest Earthquakes PDF eBook
Author Abraham Hoffman
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 169
Release 2017-06-26
Genre History
ISBN 1439660824

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A detailed look at the state’s most terrifying and destructive disasters—photos included. Home to hundreds of faults, California leads the nation in frequency of earthquakes every year. And despite enduring their share of the natural disasters, residents still speculate over the inevitable “big one.” More than three thousand people lost their lives during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Long Beach’s 1933 earthquake caused nearly $50 million in damages. And the Northridge earthquake injured thousands and left a $550 million economic hit. In this book, historian Abraham Hoffman explores the personal accounts and aftermath of California’s most destructive tremors.