Kaye traces the oldest legends of the discoveries of California. . .
Moments from Califia
The Journeys
The Narrators
The Technical Details
The Legends
The Geological Certainties
The Structure
The Docudramas
M.D. Coverley
Critic's Circle--Critics on Califia
From the the persistent myth of the Island of the Terrestrial Paradise in the Sea of Ind. . .
To the mysterious Amazon women with Arms of Gold who inhabited this land.
She relates the forgotten history of the Chumash and of Willing Stars - who knew the secrets of the tatoos and the string figures, the paths through the heavens.
To the Chumash, the Turtle seemed a likely companion. The movment of Turtle under the earth was believed to produce earthquakes. The Coyote and the Creation.
Violet Summerland lives without time. But she knows the names of the Dipper stars. In Paradise Home.
And the search contines for the lost mines, out in the desert, under blazing skies - the dream hides under every rock.