Bøger af Steven Gilbar

The story of the people for whom California places are named. From Mt. Ansel Adams to Zabriskie Point. Every city and county and state park named for someone, plus hundreds of other eponymous towns, rivers, mountains, creeks, and beaches.

This volume is a collection of commemorative essays by some of the world's greatest literary talent¿about some of the world's greatest literary talents: Emerson on Thoreau, Howells on Twain, Cather on Crane, Baldwin on Wright, Bellow on Cheever, and forty-three further pairings.