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The only 1939 features not replicated as part of this reissued WPA guide to California are the original cover photograph and a full-size fold-out map tucked into a pocket in the back. The first edition’s jacket carried a black and white picture of two or three immense redwoods towering well out of frame, dwarfing the couple of figures—hikers? rangers? lumber-men?—standing around beneath them. It’s a good but not a great image, capturing only one of many themes that run through the book: California’s ambivalent response, usually either rapturous or rapacious, to nature.
This is the perennial design problem
