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Quarto in off-white illus jacket; xviii, 393 pages illustrations, color map (on lining papers), portraits 24 cm; bibliographical references. Anza's California Expeditions / Herbert E. Bolton -- The Journey of the Flame / Walter Nordhoff -- Death Valley in '49 / William L. Manly -- The Land of Little Rain / Mary Austin -- The Wonders of the Colorado Desert / George Wharton James -- The Shirley Letters / Louisa Smith Clapp -- The Luck of the Roaring Camp / Bret Hart -- Roughing It / Mark Twain -- The Splendid Idle Forties / Gertrude Atherton -- Up and Down California in 1860-64 / William H. Brewer -- Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada / Clarence King -- The Mountain of California / John Muir -- Two Years Before the Mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- The Silverado Squatters / Robert Louis Stevenson -- McTeague / Frank Norris -- Martin Eden / Jack London -- California Coast Trails / J. Smeaton Chase -- Give Your Heart to the Hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- To a God Unknown / John Steinbeck -- California and the West / Charis and Edward Weston -- The Vineyard / Idwal Jones -- The Cattle on a Thousand Hills / Robert Glass Cleland -- Ramona / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Reminiscences of a Ranger / Horace Bell -- Land of Sunshine / Charles F. Lummis -- Boy on Horseback / Lincoln Steffens -- Oil! / Upton Sinclair -- Merton of the Movies / Harry Leon Wilson -- The Day of the Locust / Nathanael West -- After Many a Summer / Aldous Huxley -- Farewell, My Lovely / Raymond Chandler. '' The author's personal preferences for 31 works which have been read beyond a single generation, ranging from Anza's California Expedition to Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, are the subject of this illuminating study of the creative impulse of writers, not necessarily native sons, who have made California the setting of their masterpieces. In combining biography and criticism the author has gone to the original sources of each work, seeking the forces that created it--a love of landscape or a woman, literary chronicle of California, seen against a background of seacoast, valleys, mountains, deserts, and cities. Among the thousands of books of Californiana, it may be safely said that there is none like this one which blends literature, history, and geography with biography and criticism. First serialized in Westways these chapters were widely hailed as a freshly original guide to California's living literature. Now revised and rearranged, with the addition of brief reading lists, photographs, and a map, they form a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to one of California's chief glories, its richly varied creative literature." // Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001) was an American librarian, writer, and critic. He was born on September 3, 1906, in Washington, D.C. Powell received his bachelor's degree from Occidental College in 1928 and his master's degree in library science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930. Powell worked as a librarian for several institutions, including the Library of Congress, UCLA, and the University of Arizona, where he served as the university librarian from 1959 to 1973. He was also a prolific writer, publishing over 100 books, articles, and reviews on a variety of topics, including librarianship, the American Southwest, and book collecting. Powell was known for his advocacy of intellectual freedom and his support of libraries as centers of learning and cultural exchange. He was a founding member of the Arizona Historical Society and served as president of the American Library Association in 1964-65. Powell died on March 14, 2001, in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 94. // Litt?rature am?ricaine -- Californie. American literature. Literary collections. Literature. Geographic: California -- Literary collections. California, EE. UU. -- Historia. California. American literature; California; California; Literary collections. Librarians. Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001. Fine in about very good jacket with small close. Seller Inventory # 94393
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