Life on the San Andreas Fault: A History of Portola Valley

by Nancy Lund and Pamela Gullard

Scottwall Assoc, San Francisco, 2003, First Edition, 276 pp, green cloth cover, bright silver stamping on cover and spine This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942087194
• ISBN13: 9780942087192
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Scottwall Associates
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 years and up

Customer Reviews

A TRULY BEAUTIFUL BOOK

This carefully written, highly readable history, with countless beautiful illustrations, is truly a work of art. The clear, concise writing, the magnificent photographs and paintings, and the superb book design make it perhaps the finest local history ever published, in California or elsewhere. Even people who have never heard of Portola Valley will find it interesting and valuable. Beginning with the geology of the valley and progressing through the evidence of the earliest human habitation, the Native Americans, the Mexican rancheros, the gradual influx of American settlers and entrepreneurs, and the rustic and beautiful town of today, the authors have painted a true and accurate portrait of a community that is both typical of California and yet unique in its development, and also in its risky seismic location on the largest earthquake fault in the state. This is local history at its best, lovingly assembled and lavishly produced.