Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The mythology of the region
- 1 Spectatorship and abandonment: Dana, Leonard, and Frémont
- 2 Muir and the possession of landscape
- 3 King and catastrophe
- 4 Mary Austin: nature and nurturance
- 5 Norris and the vertical
- 6 Steinbeck's lost gardens
- 7 Chandler, marriage, and “the Great Wrong Place”
- 8 Jeffers, Snyder, and the ended world
- Epilogue: Fictions of space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The mythology of the region
- 1 Spectatorship and abandonment: Dana, Leonard, and Frémont
- 2 Muir and the possession of landscape
- 3 King and catastrophe
- 4 Mary Austin: nature and nurturance
- 5 Norris and the vertical
- 6 Steinbeck's lost gardens
- 7 Chandler, marriage, and “the Great Wrong Place”
- 8 Jeffers, Snyder, and the ended world
- Epilogue: Fictions of space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Fall into EdenLandscape and Imagination in California, pp. 269 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986