Calling California Home: A Dream, a Way of Life, a State of Mind: 2nd (The calling it home series) - Tapa blanda

California represents something curious and remarkable located out at the furthest edge of the New World - where the sun always shines and anything is possible." So says Heather Waite in this thoroughly delightful second offering in the Calling It Home series. With an eye for telling detail and a sense of humor, Waite surveys California from prehistory to the present, revealing the origins, attitudes, quirks, curiosities, and little-known facts that make residents of the Golden State unique.

It's not just a state -- it's a state of mind! Sun-worshippers along the coast, dealmakers in Hollywood, entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, sophisticates in San Francisco, farmers in Central Valley, nature-lovers and skiers in the mountains -- all these individuals find their home is diverse California. Whether they are native or not, they all share one common trait -- the California spirit.