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Author Fradkin, Philip L.

Title The left coast : California on the edge / photos by Alex L. Fradkin ; text by Philip L. Fradkin.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 115 pages, 109 unnumbered of plates) : color illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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Subject Fradkin, Philip L. -- Travel -- California.
Fradkin, Philip L.
Travel.
California.
Fradkin, Alex (Alex Leon), 1966- -- Travel -- California.
Fradkin, Alex (Alex Leon), 1966-
California -- Description and travel.
Coasts -- California.
Coasts.
California -- History.
History.
Natural history -- California.
Natural history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Fradkin, Alex (Alex Leon), 1966-
Other Form: Print version: Fradkin, Philip L. Left coast. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011 9780520255098 (DLC) 2010035056 (OCoLC)659413037
ISBN 9780520948778 electronic book
0520948777 electronic book
9780520255098
0520255097
1283277883
9781283277884