Utopia by the Sea is a unique cultural history of the California Coast. It tells the story of the places where dream aspirations have reached fantastic proportions from the time after the Gold Rush to the present. It explores the utopian ideals of many who came to the edge of the sea with dreams for a better world, a new way of living that could make tangible the practice of paradise.
The places are many and varied, and they all share the shape of an aspirational heaven on earth, full of gaudy desires and dreams. The attraction of the California Coast for those adventurers to dream...