Marin: The Place, the People

Marin: The Place, the People by Futcher, Jane. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780030574726.

Marin County in California, whose western shores are flanked by the Pacific and whose eastern shores are formed by San Francisco Bay, has been satirized and stereotyped and the so-called Marin life-style has entered into contemporary mythology - hot tubs, peacock feathers, marijuana plants on the redwood deck, bean sprouts n the salad. Now, the actual Marin, as it is and as it was, is celebrated in a magnificently beautiful book that does full justice to the place itself in all its astonishing variety - sea, mountain, farmland, isolated villages, commuter suburbs, and to the remarkable diversity of people fortunate enough to live there. For anyone who has lived in or visited Marin or intends to visit there - after reading and looking at Marin: The Place, The People - or simply as a book to daydream over, this handsome assemblage of text and pictures should prove irresistible.