The Island of California: A History of the Myth by Dora Beale Polk

The Island of California: A History of the Myth

Dora Beale Polk

399 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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To early explorers and geographers California represented a terrestrial paradise. It was Atlantis, Arcadia, Avalon, El Dorado, the Garden of Eden, the Land of Milk and Honey, the Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan. It was always a magnet for dreamers. I...

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