- ISBN: 9780374517632 | 0374517630
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/1/1983
Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing inThe Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization."