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Historical Atlas of California
by Derek Hayes
from University of California Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A "must have" book for serious people
  Hayes' "Historical Atlas of California" is a real treasure.
  His book spans 500 years of the history of CA.
  It is very readable and a "must have" for any student of historical geography. I strongly recommend it. It is well written and very well illustrated. A real find.
  Anybody interested in California's past and future would be well advised to at least peruse this "coffee table" sized book.
  It has a wealth of information and lots of rare maps.

• Cartographical cornucopia
  This chronologically depicts California's discovery, development, and divisions. It follows the guesses of the earliest European explorers (I wonder what a native map would look like, but none's represented) and you see the island gradually become a peninsula or archipelago before assuming over the centuries its coastline. Then, the interior begins to take shape, and cities and farms and railroads fill the spaces. A sort of time-lapse ideologically and practically from the past five centuries.
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• Highly recommended
  I was delighted with the book. It is a treasure trove of information provided you use it properly. I use a magnifying glass to view the maps in close detail to get the most out of the book. If you look closely at the maps you are treated to an "evolution" of the state from the time that it was thought to be an island to the present. By inspecting each map very closely you see places that now don't exist, lakes that have disappeared, and roads that have gone from dirt paths to super highways. If you love... more info

• Historical Atlas of California
  This beautiful book contains copies of 476 historic maps dealing with California history from the earliest times to the present. This book is for any historian interested in California history, and any individual interested in maps. These are located in repositories all over the United States, thus we can virtually travel and update our history by reading this wonderful book. I was particularly delighted to find an 1847 rendering of the battle of Los Angeles between the Americans and the Mexicans. Each map... more info

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