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To early explorers and geographers California represented a terrestrial paradise. It was Atlantis, Arcadia, Avalon, El Dorado, the Garden of Eden, the Land of Milk and Honey, the Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan. It was always a magnet for dreamers. In this fascinating book Dora Beale Polk examines the dreams and myths that influenced the discovery and exploration of California.
Throughout, Polk treats the long-held concept of California as an island, going back to medieval lore that filled an unknown ocean with rich, mysterious ideal islands. Columbus carried the lore to the New World, expecting to find islands teeming with gold, pearls, fabulous creatures, and Amazon women. Cortés was led by the “romance of the islands.” Balboa, Cabrillo, Drake, Ascensión, Kino, and many others entered into the making of the island myth. The discoveries and explorations of all the major figures are traced and their reports analyzed as they relate to California’s geography and to the dreams overlaying it.
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Dora Beale Polk is a professor of English at California State University at Long Beach. She has published popular suspense novels and poetry as well as scholarly works.
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dora Beale Polk. The Island of California A History of the Myth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press/ Bison Books, 1995, 1st. Bison edition, 1st. printing, 399 pp. *** California's climate was discovered early on by explorers and geographers who believed it to be an earthly paradise. For several centuries some mapmakers depicted it as an island. The peculiar geography of the Gulf of California naturally led to the conclusion by some that the gulf continued as a strait, ending somewhere north on the Pacific Coast. Europeans were fascinated with islands, which they believed held untold riches and exotic peoples. Polk traces this myth of California from it's earliest years to the latter years of the 17th. Century. With a large number of b&w full-page and text illustrations of ancient maps. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Illustrated soft covers with the lightest of wear, contents complete in solid binding. Near Fine condition. *** 9 inches tall by 6 inches. Seller Inventory # 5750