Table of Contents

Preface                      

The Approach                   
I: Deserts                     
II: The Sierra                 
III: Land of Fire            
IV: Land of Water            
V: The Great Valley          
VI: The Fractured Province   
VII: The Profligate Province 

Acknowledgments              
Source Notes                 
Index                        
 

About the Author

Philip Fradkin is the author of six highly acclaimed books on the American West, including the newly updated A River No More (California, 1996). A former environmental writer for the Los Angeles Times, he also served as Assistant Secretary of the California Resources Agency, as Western editor for Audubon magazine, and has taught nonfiction writing at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He shared in a Pulitzer prize awarded to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the 1965 Watts racial conflict.

Reviews

"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