Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State,Used

Alta California: From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State,Used

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This national bestseller chronicles one mans 650mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Franciscosure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbeys Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreaus On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyons That Wild Country.In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portol sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world.Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Cresp, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portol expeditionnearly 250 years later.Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neelys adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California todaywater, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and developmentall of it one step at a time.Rich in littleknown history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." San Francisco Chronicle

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