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The Golden Land
The California Water Atlas, by William L. Kahrl
by Joan Didion
The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1993, pp. 85-94
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. The California Water Atlas (1979)
    William L. Kahrl
    3 Reviews
  2. Battling the Inland Sea (1989)
    Robert Lloyd Kelley
    Floods, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986
    2 Reviews
  3. Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Island (1874)
    Charles Nordhoff
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. A Companion to California (1978)
    James D. Hart
    2 Reviews
  5. The Great Central Valley (1993)
    Stephen Johnson, Gerald Haslam, and Robert Dawson, ...
    California's Heartland
    1 Review
  6. Papers in Honour of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday (1916)
    Josiah Royce
    1 Review
  7. California: A Study of American Character (1886)
    Josiah Royce
    From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  8. Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard (1992)
    Robert V. Hine
    2 Reviews
  9. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973)
    Kevin Starr
    3 Reviews
  10. California: The Great Exception (1949)
    Carey McWilliams
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  11. The Octopus (1899)
    Frank Norris
    A Story of California
    17 Chapters, 476pp - 1 Review
  12. The Ranch Papers (1988)
    Jane Hollister Wheelwright
    A California Memoir
    1 Review
  13. Up and Down California, 1860-1864 (1950)
    William H. Brewer and Francis P. Farquhar
    The Journal of William H. Brewer
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  14. The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats (1974)
    G. William Domhoff
    A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  15. The Greatest Men's Party on Earth (1974)
    John van der Zee
    Inside the Bohemian Grove
    3 Reviews
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