An Emerging Sea-Change to an Oceanic Way of Being
A Consideration of Philip and Alex Fradkin’s The Left Coast: California on the Edge Originally published 1 June 2014 “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” Saint Augustine “Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.” Lord Byron Philip L. Fradkin’s The Left Coast: California on the Edge, (2011, University of California Press, 126 pages, index, color photographs, paperback, $36.95) with photography...