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.