by Robert R. Shandley (2009)
Examines Hollywood's European travelogue romances from 1947 to 1964, the end of American isolationism and the advent of challenges in Hollywood that made American filmmakers begin filming abroad.
David Helvarg
A sweeping history of the California coastline documents its changing culture and ecology while exploring its role in the state's efforts to counter environmental disasters, citing the influence of the international border fence and the rich animal and plant life that depend on the coast for survival.
Isabel Allende
A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel
edited and introduced by Terry Gifford
Features the eight influential books in which John Muir reflects on the beauty of America's wilderness and fights for their protection.
Rebecca Fish Ewan
"A Land Between explores the central idea of how people's preconceptions and perceptions of a place - in this case, Owens Valley - influence their interventions on the land. Rebecca Fish Ewan draws on primary sources, oral histories, and conversations, offering a story that reaches beyond the oft-told of water wars with Los Angeles. Ewan's essays, illustrated with historical images and her own photographs of the region, provide a complex, multifaceted perspective on the land, the history, and the people of Owens Valley."--BOOK JACKET.