Johnson, Stephen and Gerald W. Haslam, et al.
The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. Black and color-photo-illustrated DJ with red and light brown lettering; brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering; ix, 253 pp.; richly illustrated. This marvelously evocative book by Stephen Johnson, Gerald Haslam, and Robert Dawson -- all natives of the Great Central Valley of California -- is the first to explore in detail the rich natural and social history of the state's agricultural heartland. Gerald Haslam's text celebrates the tenacious people of the Valley, where hard work and ingenuity are the means to both survival and success. This land that gives little but yields, under pressure, to determination, sweat, and dreams of a better life. Stephen Johnson's and Robert Dawson's stunning photographs reveal the subtle beauty of the region as well as the delicate relationship between the land and the people who work it. -- DJ. Good (Ex art Library with a sticker on the DJ spine and on rear pastedown; DJ is edgeworn with a repaired chip at the bottom and is also scuffed/smudged/foxed; boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges are lightly smudged; interior is clean with light toning at the periphery; binding is solid.) .

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