Never an Island: A History of California - Paperback

by Ward M. McAfee (Author), R. Reginald (Author)

Early European explorers regularly portrayed California as an island on their maps, mistaking the Gulf of California as extending northward without limit. This volume is written to show that California history can also be presented in a different way: its thesis, plainly stated, is that California (despite all of its unique qualities) has never been an island.