Farewell, Promised Land

by Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin

Book Overview

Historical accounts of California tell of flocks of birds so dense in the sky that they cast a shadow on the ground, and of thunderous rivers of geese, ducks, and swans moving down the state to the lagoons of Mexico and beyond. Today, citizens and travelers in California take for granted skies empty of almost everything but the contrails of airplanes. But far more than wildlife is missing from California today. In text and photographs, Farewell, Promised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520211243
• ISBN13: 9780520211247
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.6" x 9.8"