C. W. Ceram reports on the last survivor of an Indian tribe. Stefan Branch follows an adventurer through the Gold Rush. Jack London enjoys the vagabond life. Johann Vilhelm Jensen laments the earthquake-damaged San Francisco. Simone de Beauvoir is enchanted by the endless vastness of the desert. Thurs Greenlegs fights its way through the urban jungle in Los Angeles. Eldridge Cleaver reports from the monotonous prison routine. Don Winslow drives along the U.S. Highway 101. Henry Miller lets himself be enchanted by Big Sur. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht looks for the traces of the sixties. Joan Didion enjoys quiet days in Malibu. Paul Beatty misses the midday smog. Christa Wolf claps her hands in an African church. This and much more about California.