Publicado por Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1981, 1981
Librería: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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Quinn, Arthur J., 1942-1997. Broken shore. The Marin Peninsula. A perspective on history. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1981, stated First Edition, vii, 180pp., good price-clipped dust-jacket, light wear, good brown hardcover, but rubbed at top of spine, a few pages dog-eared. SIGNED simply Arthur Quinn 7/14/90 on half-title page. A history of California's Marin Peninsula. - Quinn was a native of Marin County, born in San Rafael, and from 1970 a professor in the Rhetoric Department at Berkeley. - "He wrote three books on California history: The Broken Shore (1981) recapitulates great themes of Western Civilization within a history of what is now Marin County; The Rivals (1994) narrates struggles for justice and order in early American San Francisco and California on the eve of the Civil War; and Hell With the Fire Out (1997) recreates from eyewitness accounts the grim story of the Modoc War" (from University of California obituary). 9780879050856 ISBN 0879050853.