{"product_id":"9781597142724","title":"Trail Posts: A Literary Exploration of California's State Parks","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this new collection, we see forty-one California parks through the eyes of explorers, poets, novelists, and ordinary citizens who lived through extraordinary historical events. Young researchers leap among the branches of a coastal redwood canopy with no safety equipment except for their sense of balance. A woman gives her testimonio of the day in 1846 when boisterous men in coyote skins raised a hand-painted bear flag above her home. Freewheeling Beat writers drink wine and meditate on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. James Marshall tells us in his own words what it was like to come upon the nugget of gold that sent the world rushing into California. Accompanied by seventy-seven photographs of the featured parks, the writings in Trail Posts reveal in equal measure the state's natural beauty, complex history, and literary heritage. This celebration of California state parks suffuses the land with the human spirit, and encourages us to make the parks our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heyday Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041288044784,"sku":"9781597142724","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781597142724_p0.jpg?v=1763812920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781597142724","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}