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imagelinks[1]="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558684697/ref=nosim/localpicscom"
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captions[1]="California, by David Meunch and Marc Meunch"
captions[2]="Ansel Adams, California (Book)"
captions[3]="California, by Art Wolfe and Peter Jensen"
captions[4]="Maverick's: The Story of Big Wave Surfing"
captions[5]="Big Sur to Big Basin : California's Dramatic Central Coast"

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summary[1]="Amazon.com Review: Father and son, the Muenches capture the glorious panoramas that define our most elusive state. CALIFORNIA is an evocative photographic exhibition of a state that still has the power to make you dream of wild lands and starting anew."
summary[2]="Amazon.com Review: Ansel Adams may be one of the most famous nature photographers ever, but his often-overlooked portraits of people and images of buildings and manmade landscapes are as stirring and beautiful as his inimitable wilderness photographs. This is a manageably sized volume that collects images of the state's beaches, mountains, parks, architecture, and people, as well as writing--poems, essays, fiction--by authors such as John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, and Joan Didion. The combination of words and images is a visual and literary homage to California, a place that was home to and the source of inspiration for the great photographer."
summary[3]="Amazon.com Review: This is a California that is familiar--Yosemite, Marin, the Owens Valley--and yet remarkably new. Internationally acclaimed nature and landscape photographer Art Wolfe has taken pictures on every continent, often traveling to the most remote locations in search of perfect light on unique landforms. The exquisite range of California's landscape has long inspired Wolfe, and this book brings together his best pictures in a celebration of the golden coast, rich forests, elemental mountains, lush valleys, and colorful desert. Wolfe offers a personal landscape in his images of place, and the result is California as it has not been seen before."
summary[4]="'A voodoo wave.' 'The Everest of the ocean.' What surfer in his right mind would choose to surf Maverick's with its 50-degree murky water, 60-foot faces, punishing rock bottom, and shifting Central California currents over riding the warm, blue, big waves of Hawaii? But Maverick's presents a surfing challenge like no other. Each winter, starting in October, an elite corps from around the world journey to Maverick's to test themselves on its cold, forbidding waves-because challenge, above all else, motivates the big-wave surfer. With heart-stopping photography and an exceptional, driving text, Maverick's tracks the most dangerous days in the break's history..." 
summary[5]="Amazon.com Review: A coast lover's coffee-table book, Big Sur to Big Basin is both stirringly beautiful and exceptionally informative...Long-time California resident Pamela Verduin Cain has done a thorough job of finding and recounting stories that give the photos interest beyond the visual. There are Pebble Beach golf legends, secret nature hikes, famous authors' and artists' haunts, and palate-tempting descriptions of choice restaurants along the way. The book is divided into six sections: Big Sur, Carmel, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, Monterey, and Santa Cruz. A hand-illustrated map highlights 25 points of interest (such as the Steinbeck House, Point Lobos State Reserve, and Monterey Bay Aquarium) to help travelers actually find some of the stunning spots captured here..."


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