Explores the backroads of Northern California in compelling pictures and text.
Almost 150 color photographs, 55,000 words, and 18 handsome maps take the reader into the landscapes, myths and history in the upper half of the Golden State. A dozen historical images complement the author's photographs, most made especially for this book.
Excerpt
"THERE ARE SOME who believe the center of the universe is in northwest California. The only way to know for sure is to drive twenty-two miles on California Highway 96, along the Trinity River and into the heart of the Klamath Mountains."
"WHEN I WAS a college student I would occasionally drive a few miles with my girlfriend to the Honey Run Road Covered Bridge in Butte Creek Canyon, not far from Chico State. We would walk across the bridge, listening to our footsteps echo inside the wooden span, listening to the water flowing beneath us, and then share a kiss in the night gone suddenly very still."
