Mark Arax: 3 books
West of the West
Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as...
The Dreamt Land
Chasing Water and Dust Across California
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
**"[An] exhaustive, deeply reported account... Few other journalists could have written a book as personal and authoritative... As Arax makes plain in this important book, it's been the same story in California for almost two centuries now: When it comes to water, 'the resource is finite. The greed...
The King Of California
J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.
J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while...