List of illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: the mythology of the region 1. Spectatorship and abandonment: Dana, Leonard, and Fremont 2. Muir and the possession of landscape 3. King and catastrophe 4. Mary Austin: nature and nurturance 5. Norris and the vertical 6. Steinbeck's lost gardens 7. Chandler, marriage, and 'the Great Wrong Place' 8. Jeffers, Snyder, and the ended world Epilogue: fictions of space Notes Bibliography Index.
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