David Darlington, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1631-4
The Mojave Desert is the realm of the Joshua tree, the desert tortoise, the high-speed jet fighter and the car. Once regarded as a vast wasteland and dumpsite, it is now seen as a refuge and recreation area; recently, it has become an environmental...
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David Darlington, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4777-6
Area 51, the remote piece of Nevada desert real estate that serves as a top secret military installation, is the crossroads where the paranoid, the paranormal and a pop culture parable converge. In this entertaining study, Darlington (The Mojave)...
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David Darlington, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-395-40798-1
Eben and Ian McMillan, octogenarian brothers, have spent their lives in the high, arid, rolling grassland of San Luis Obispo County in Californiacondor country. Self-taught naturalists and conservationists, they made a study of condors for the...
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David Darlington, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1608-6
``The roundness and depth of Zinfandel--it's sheer joy,'' comments Darlington ( In Condor Country ) on his favorite potent potable, but it would seem that the solution to the ``mystery'' of the wine's character and origins is angelically elusive in...
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David Darlington. Harper, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-170423-9
Journalist Darlington affectionately chronicles the largely untold story of the wine rush of the 1970s—a time when sales of wine eclipsed that of beer and when a number of vineyards and wineries began in California. Focusing his attention on two...
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