The Garden of the World

by Lawrence Coates

Book Overview

California's Santa Clara Valley was once home to a vigorous wine industry. The Garden of the World is the tale of a pioneer winemaking family headed by Paul Tourneau, a fiercely ambitious vintner determined to make the finest wines in California. His plans are disrupted by a phylloxera epidemic at the beginning of the twentieth century, the trials of national Prohibition, and the bitter alienation of his older son. Played out against the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874178703
• ISBN13: 9780874178708
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"