Malibu

<I>Malibu</I> is a hiking book about the natural beauty and ecology of Southern California. It combines philosophy with a love of nature and California's unspoiled coastal beauty. It is also a tragedy as that landscape is torn up and paved over for progress and Malibu is reduced to just another celebrity suburb of L.A.</P><P><I>Malibu</I> is a mixture of a West-coast Walden and a modern day In Praise of Folly. It is an epithany and a lament lyrical and ludicrous. It extols the virtues of a surfer's life and decries the illth of modern materialism. It is a polemic on the core values of modern life and challenges the premises of our everyday lives. <I>Malibu</I> invites you to read this book and take a hike.</P>