Backroads of the California Coast by Karen Misuraca

Author:Karen Misuraca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2009-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

Protecting the delicate plants on the sand dunes of Asilomar State Beach is this winding boardwalk.

Driving along the Seventeen Mile Drive, lovers of golf enjoy glimpses of some of the most famous and most difficult courses in the world—Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Links at Spanish Bay, and Cypress Point. The south end of the drive emerges in the city of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

STEINBECK’S WORLD

BORN AND RAISED IN THE SMALL VALLEY TOWN OF SALINAS, a few miles east of the Monterey Peninsula coastline, John Steinbeck wrote about the struggles and romances of early farm families and Dust Bowl migrant laborers. His novels—Cannery Row, Tortilla Flats, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and others—are American classics read by nearly every schoolchild. In the 1920s and 1930s, his socialistic leanings and sympathies toward unions and workers’ rights were controversial enough to catch the eye of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had him investigated as a subversive; his writings were publicly burned in Salinas on at least two occasions.

Despite the controversy, Steinbeck became a world-famous writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath, and the United States Medal of Freedom, among other honors.

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