Unfolding Beauty

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ISBN: 9781890771348 | 1890771341
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/2000

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The astounding beauty of California is reflected not only in the works of authors like John Muir, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, and Robinson Jeffers, but also in surprising and provocative selections from writers such as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Aldous Huxley, and Charles Bukowski.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The San Francisco Bay Area	p. 1
Naming the Golden Gate	p. 9
That Wretched Place, San Francisco!	p. 13
"Evenfall at the Gate," "Point Bonita," "Santa Clara Valley"	p. 17
from New Almaden	p. 19
from Against a Darkening Sky	p. 22
from All the Little Live Things	p. 31
"California Hills in August," "Becoming a Redwood"	p. 36
from The Silverado Squatters	p. 39
from The Valley of the Moon	p. 45
from The Dharma Bums	p. 54
The Northwest and Shasta Country	p. 59
Gedin Ch-Lum-Nu	p. 65
from In the Land of the Grasshopper Song	p. 72
from In the Footprints of the Padres	p. 78
from Trout Fishing in America	p. 84
from The Dark Range	p. 89
"Mount Shasta, Seen from a Distance"	p. 95
from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada	p. 98
A Bear on Fire	p. 107
from The Seven States of California	p. 114
The Sierra Nevada	p. 119
from The Shirley Letters	p. 125
from A Frontier Lady	p. 136
from Roughing It	p. 147
from The Yosemite	p. 155
from Yosemite Trails	p. 163
"Spring, Sierra Nevada," "Fall, Sierra Nevada," "Time is the Mercy of Eternity"	p. 168
"John Muir on Mt. Ritter," "Burning the Small Dead," "The Canyon Wren"	p. 177
The Southern Desert and Basin	p. 181
from A Journal of Ramblings	p. 187
from The Land of Little Rain	p. 192
from Death Valley in '49	p. 200
from The City of Trembling Leaves	p. 206
from The Wonders of the Colorado Desert	p. 211
from The Winning of Barbara Worth	p. 213
from The Deer Park	p. 216
from Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow	p. 220
The Southern Coast	p. 223
from Two Years Before the Mast	p. 229
from Ramona	p. 236
from Up and Down California	p. 240
from Adobe Days	p. 243
from California the Wonderful	p. 248
from Exhumations	p. 251
"we ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain"	p. 257
from Slouching Towards Bethlehem	p. 267
"Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It," "Water and Power"	p. 271
from The Ranch Papers	p. 275
from A Match to the Heart	p. 279
The Central Coast	p. 283
from Font's Complete Diary	p. 289
from Old and New Pacific Capitals	p. 292
"Continent's End," "Evening Ebb," "The Place for No Story," "Fire on the Hills"	p. 298
from Jeffers Country	p. 302
"Pico Blanco"	p. 306
from To a God Unknown	p. 308
from California Coast Trails	p. 314
A Coast Range Sutra	p. 322
The Central Valley	p. 329
from Up and Down California	p. 334
from The Mountains of California	p. 338
from The Octopus	p. 346
"Winter Ploughing," "Fog," "San Joaquin," "Clouds," "Oh Fortunate Earth"	p. 351
from My Name Is Aram	p. 355
"Dustbowl Doxology," "The Flower Lover," "Viewing Kern County Desolation," "First Spring in California, 1936"	p. 366
"Field," "Wind," "Stars," "Sun," "Rain," "Fog," "Daybreak"	p. 369
"The Green-eyed Monsters of the Valley Dusk," "california light"	p. 374
from The Other California
from Epitaph for a Peach	p. 388
Permissions	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 399
About the Editor	p. 403
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