![]() ![]() Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. ![]() For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition-nearly 250 years later. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. ![]() It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world.ĭespite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. ![]() In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco-sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. ![]()
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