Big Sur Inn: Deetjen Legacy - Tapa dura

"Alan provides a beautifully written story of the beloved Big Sur Inn."

"Alan knows the coastal community intimately and does full justice to the story behind the famed inn and its owner."

"Filled with historical images from Deetjen's personal archives a wealth of stunning photographs depicting the natural beauty of the area."

Big Sur Inn: The Deetjen Legacy (Gibbs Smith, Publisher) won the 2008 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Bronze Award from the Society of American Travel Writers and the Gold Award for Best Non-fiction

"Even if you've never driven past the Big Sur Inn on Route 1, much less fallen into its old-world arms at the end of a long drive or a hard week, you'll relish this illustrated story of its founding."

"Whether or not you've visited the historic Big Sur Inn, the romantic photographs, poems and recollections of the place will enchant you. Intensely detailed, this book explores the California inn as well as the rich lives of the owners and founders."

"A rich pictorial scrapbook executed with great skill and love Five Gold Pens out of five for Big Sur Inn."

"I have to say that I read (and viewed) the book with that particular nostalgia a Californian feels in the East recalling the beauty of his native state. I'm sure I had the same reaction that most readers will have-I must stay there!"--Dana Gioia, Chairman"National Endowment for the Arts" (10/01/2008)

Big Sur Inn: The Deetjen Legacy travels back in time to reveal the history, legends, and storied past of a California coastline institution. California's Big Sur has it all: majestic redwoods, waterfalls, and a rich literary and cultural tradition. As Sunset magazine notes: "If ever a place represented the freedom and beauty of California, this is it." Nestled on this magical stretch of Highway 1 is Deetjen's Big Sur Inn. Its distinctive vernacular architecture, which visitors and locals alike recognize as the most authentically preserved along the coast, serves a waiting list of guests year round. In 1990, the Department of Interior recognized Big Sur Inn by adding it to the National Register of Historic Places. Author Anita Alan traces the Inn's history from the poetic inspiration that compelled Helmuth Deetjen to journey from his native Norway, to the fulfillment of a lifelong dream-to make his home in the California redwoods.