Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.
Set in a beautiful California canyon, Camp Chaparral is as glorious as its young inhabitants can make it -- with bedrooms of bright canvas, a game room, and a "sky parlour" high in a tree. Bell, Poly and Margery explore the woods, while their brothers, cousins and friends Geoffrey, Philip and Jack are out fishing and cavorting . . . but Little Dicky! Where has he disappeared -- ? The author of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" offers this charming tale of youth and adventure in the sunny California of a more innocent time.
Worldwide Destinations, Fourth Edition: The geography of travel and tourism
This is an excellent required text for any undergraduate tourism geography course and an essential reference for tourism geographers at the graduate level. The structure of the text allows for those new to tourism studies, geography or tourism geography to quickly survey essential concepts before moving onto the regional tourism geography section. The book covers every country in the world and offers detail from a supply and demand pespective.- Susan Ryan, Department of Earth Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, California, Pennsylvania, USA
On 7 August 1879 RLS boarded the Devonia at Greenock. The ship was bound for New York and he himself was bound for California to see Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the woman who would soon be his wife. RLS arrived in New York City on 17 August. He stayed at the Reunion House, 10 West Street, New York and on the following day he began his train journey to California. On this page you can find out more about the route Stevenson took “across the plains” - where RLS stopped along the way and what he thought about the United States.
There's something eternal about California home interiors, a bit of the wild, natural style leashed by responsible domesticity. Writer Saeks has captured the essence of both northern and southern portions of the state, wisely allowing pictures, not text, to take center stage. More than 40 homes are displayed visually, gracefully divided into two urban lifestyles (Los Angeles and San Francisco), by coastal and country circumstances, and by design classics. Featured are nests of both the famous and the nearly so; Diane Keaton's Lloyd Wright home (Frank's son) is contrasted with two comfortable Sausalito houseboats.
