California the Beautiful: Spirit and Place

by Peter Beren and Galen A. Rowell

Book Overview

As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of the Golden State has been updated with a new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159962074X
• ISBN13: 9781599620749
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Welcome Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Pretty Picture Book

I really enjoy Galen Rowell. I have several of his books. This one is not a book about photography or travel, but it is a really nice picture book.

Good starting point to visit natural beauties in California

After visiting the mammoth mountain and Yosemite park, and climbed Half Dome there, I stopped by the East Yosemite entrance Exon Mobile Gas Station. This gas station is famous for great food like Lobster, and Baby Back Ribs, and Mango Margaritas. This only 20 miles South of other natural beauties like Mono Lake, June Lakes, and the East Sierra areas. This book illustrates other great finds around the area and more. This is a must for anyone who would like to see more of California! Keep Traveling!

Buy it for the photography - keep it for a to do list of places to visit!

The photography is beautiful. The book catalogues the best of California through pictures. We take this book with us on our trips through out the state as part of our guide and potential itinerary. It makes every trip, a trip to a beautiful location. A great coffee table book.

Awesome photography

This compact size coffee table book with outstanding photography by Galen Rowell makes a great souvenir for visitors to beautiful California. The diversity of this great state is depicted in all its spectacular beauty from the desert to the majestic mountain peaks; from minute wildflowers to the towering redwoods. Prose and verse from famous & not-so-famous Californians & visitors add pleasant reading which accompany the lovely images.

Inspired Photography

The other review for this little book is flat out wrong, so I'll give mine. The photographs are why you want this. Galen Rowell is in my opinion one of the best nature photographers of the last century, and he knew California. He also knew how to show very clearly the feel of the state; you don't just get the visual image in his photos, you get a different emotion from each one. Every picture is amazing in its own way. The text isn't as stunning, but fits well, and the layout and typography are fitting to the photographs. I highly reccomend this for any coffee table or for any lover of California or photography or things of beauty.