The Heart of California by Aaron Gilbreath PAPERBACK 9781496218636

The Heart of California\nby Aaron Gilbreath\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Aaron Gilbreath\nTitle: The Heart of California\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781496218636\nISBN-10: 1496218639\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath's trip retracing Latta's route by car during the 2014 drought. Latta embarked on his journey to publicize the need for dams and levees to improve flood control. Gilbreath made his own trip to profile Latta and the producti.