Big Sur: The Making Of A Prized California Landscape - 9780520294417

Jeffers' Country -- Nature's highway -- Big Sur: utopia, U.S.A.? -- Open-space at continent's end -- The influence of the counter-culture, community, and State -- The "battle" for Big Sur, or debating the national environmental ethic -- Defining the value of California's coastline -- Epilogue: millionaires and beaches: the socio-political economics of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century

• | Author: Shelley Alden Brooks
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0520294416
• | ISBN-13: 9780520294417