Islands of Books Author:Lawrence Clark Powell 'Supremely readable' is how Paul Horgan described the work of Lawrence Clark Powell. Add to this the familiar authority with which he writes about California and the Southwest, and we have the qualities that have made Powell one of the West's foremost spokesman. In this first reissue of his earliest book of essays, here is again avai... more »lable, the most sought after of Powell's many books of literature, history, geography and fiction, produced in sixty prolific years.These are varied essays on how and where to savor a book, and on writers from Rabelais to Whitman, Melville and Lawrence, on up to Steinbeck and Everson, those two laureates of the San Joaquin Vally. Designed by Ward Riichie and with a new introduction by the author, this reprint of the now scarce 1951 edition is sure to be welcomed by his enthusiastic readers the world over.« less