“Tracks Along the Left Coast more than accomplishes its self–appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy.” —Rain Taxi “Schelling’s biography of Jaime de Angulo—'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things—presents a fascinating, full–bodied portrait of a man and an era, as well as delving deep into California’s Native history. De Angulo’s isn't a household name, but in Schelling's work the man called by Ezra Pound the 'American Ovid' comes blazing to life in all his singular brilliance.” —Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old–time stories—a bedrock of the literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo's linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific Coast. In each retelling, through each storyteller, stories are continually revivified, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast, weaving together the story of de Angulo's life with the story of the land and the people, languages, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied.
... Tijuana Sloughs, a fabled—or “mysto” in surfer parlance—big-wave surfing spot described along with the border area in Kem Nunn's novel Tijuana Straits, sits one mile offshore of the entrance to the estuary. Nunn wrote of the fence that ...
When Art Agnos campaigned for mayor of San Francisco in 1987, he articulated and defended the "left" isms—liberalism, environmentalism, and populism. He won. Seeing Agnos as a defender of...
The Left Coast
Spielberg brought to his Munich project first - time screenwriter Tony Kushner . Kushner's forte is challenging social mores ( Angels in America ) , and the playwright may not have been the best pick to help craft the presentation of a ...
" The Lariat, which may well be his most important piece of fiction, is highlighted in this prize collection, along with other writings that have long been unavailable.
(Keyboard Instruction). This book and CD package is solely devoted to providing you with a complete overview of the techniques and styles popularized by the greatest West Coast jazz piano players of all time.
It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct.
Poetry. THE FACTS AT DOG TANK SPRING is Andrew Schelling's first book of poetry in seven years.
With suggested itineraries, overviews of major cities, and sidebars covering everything from captivating food-factory tours to instructions on how to pick the best produce at a farm stand, this book focuses the relationship between food and ...
... where Arthur Conan Doyle worked as a doctor at No 1. The pavement is studded with Sherlock Holmes quotations. Pass the Royal Marines Barracks, an impressive limestone edifice, and turn right at Barrack Place to continue along ...