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There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry --

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll --

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears the Human soul.

 Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Come to the library.

Check out an environmental classic, like “Cadillac Desert” (Marc Reisner, rev. ed. 1993). Learn how the desert bloomed and the “American Serengeti” (San Joaquin Valley) became a bastion of industrial agriculture.

Propose candidates for addition to the Branner Library Environmental Classics list (by commenting below), and see them posted in future blog entries.