Author: Shelley Alden Brooks

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0520294416

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