RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Notes on California as an Island JF Boom: A Journal of California FD University of California Press SP 36 OP 45 DO 10.1525/boom.2014.4.1.36 VO 4 IS 1 A1 Solnit, Rebecca YR 2014 UL http://boom.ucpress.edu/content/4/1/36.abstract AB This article considers California as an island, as a place apart. In five fragments, it looks at the state as a place where ideas are exchanged, imported and exported; as a place whose economy, geography and politics keep it apart from the rest of the country; as islands within islands; as a place that early cartographers and explorers believed to literally be an island; and as a place of ecological richness rivaling mythical islands.