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Edges, Peaks, and Vales: A Mythocartography of California at the Margins

Edges, Peaks, and Vales: A Mythocartography of California at the Margins

Description

Inland of its spectacularly busy and famously scenic coast, and around the edges of its huge Central Valley, California extends itself into a mysteriously introverted land of dry deserts, tall mountains, ancient lakes, and solitary valleys. To listen deeply to the myths, legends, and images emanating from this arc of isolation demands an open-hearted inquiry from border to border and Sierra to open sea. The Tears of Llorona took the historical, ecological, and imaginal pulse of the original Mission counties of California along El Camino Real from San Diego to Sonoma. Ventral Depths sampled alchemical and mythic motifs in the Central Valley. Edges, Peaks, and Vales moves the terrapsychological focus to the interior edges of California, and therefore to those of a quintessentially place-based consciousness attuned to its startlingly sentient surroundings.

ISBN

978-0982627921

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

World Soul Press

City

Walnut Creek, California

Keywords

California-History, Human Ecology-California, Mythocartography

Disciplines

Environmental Education | Human Ecology | United States History

Comments

The final volume of the Animate California Trilogy

Edges, Peaks, and Vales: A Mythocartography of California at the Margins

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