California Against the Sea

By Rosanna Xia,

Book cover of California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Changing Coastline

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From a celebrated environmental journalist, the riveting exploration of sea level rise along the West Coast through human stories and ecological dramas.

2023 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Nonfiction, Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance

"Viscerally urgent, thoroughly reported, and compellingly written-a must-read for our uncertain times." -Ed Yong,…

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This book is one I didn’t want to put down and I don’t say this about most non-fiction books. Rosanna Xia, from her many years as a writer for the Los Angeles Times on coastal issues, has taken a topic that is of critical importance to all coastal cities and residents in California and beyond and through conversations with a wide variety of people in a handful of coastal communities makes this story engaging, interesting, and insightful.

The sea level is rising and we are in the way. We are now presented with massive challenges around the planet, and the…

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