Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A portrait of a landscape - eastern San Luis Obispo county in California, its denizens - the rarest of North American birds, and its defenders - two eighty year old brothers, ranchers and conservationists. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens with this comment "a book about California with implications for the whole planet." Index. 242 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-395-407982.