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Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream
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Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream Hardcover - 1999

by Robert Dawson; Gray Brechin


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  • Title Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream
  • Author Robert Dawson; Gray Brechin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 253
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1999-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520211230 / 0520211235
  • Weight 3.89 lbs (1.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.86 x 11.89 x 1.13 in (25.04 x 30.20 x 2.87 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects California - Environmental conditions, California - Environmental conditions -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98024030
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.700

About the author

Robert Dawson is coauthor of The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland (California, 1993); his work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions. His photographs of the American West have been recognized by a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches photography at San Jose State University and at Stanford University. Gray Brechin is a historical geographer and has authored articles on the environment and environmental history. He has a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. When writer Gray Brechin and photographer Robert Dawson received the 1992 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, they began a five-year project of driving and flying around California to record the present state of its environment. This book is the result of that collaboration. In six thematic chapters dealing with Loss, Mining, Farming, Cities, Energy, and Health, the authors provide a sobering look at California's environment. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Brechin on the title page. Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with bronze titles. The contents are sagging just a touch, as usual; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
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