Big Sur Inn: The Deetjen Legacy by Anita Alan
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- Pub. Date: August 2006
- 176pp
- Sales Rank: 665,658
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- Pub. Date: August 2006
- Publisher: Gibbs Smith
- Format: Hardcover, 176pp
- Sales Rank: 665,658
- ISBN-13: 9781423600121
- ISBN: 1423600126
Synopsis
Big Sur Inn: The Deetjen Legacy travels back in time to reveal the history, legends, and storied past of a California institution. Nestled on the magical stretch of Highway One is Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn. Its distinctive vernacular architecture, which visitors and locals alike recognize as the most authentically preserved along the coast, serves a waiting list of guests year round. In 1990, the Department of the Interior recognized Big Sur Inn by adding it to the National Register of Historic Places.
Author Anita Alan traces the Inn’s history from the poetic inspiration that compelled Helmuth Deetjen to journey from his native Norway, to the fulfillment of a lifelong dream - to make his home in the California redwoods. With his wife, Helen Haight Deetjen, he created an intimate refuge, not just for two, but also for travelers, artists, and celebrities worldwide. Whether a casual guest, or a celebrity visitor such as Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, John Denver, or Joan Baez - all will find Big Sur Inn a haven from the brisk pace of city living.
Color and vintage photographs from the Inn’s beginning to the present guide you through its natural surroundings, cozy rustic rooms, and enchanting restaurant. Deetjen’s kitchen shares coveted recipes with the reader. The poetry of Robinson Jeffers frames each chapter in this book - a volume designed to bring the warmth of Deetjen’s hearth into your home.
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2008 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Bronze Award Winner!
2007 Independent Publisher Gold Award Winner!
Society of American Travel Writers
Whether or not you've visited the historic Big Sur Inn, the romantic photographs, poems and recollections of the place will enchant you. Intensely detailed, this book explores the California inn as well as the rich lives of the owners and founders.
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Anita Alan graduated from the University of Southern California, studied at the New School in New York, and received her MA from Monterey Institute of International Studies. She worked as a writer, editor, and photographer for the Big Sur Gazette, in Big Sur, California, where she and her family lived for twenty-five years. She contributes photographs and human interest articles to newspapers and magazines, including magazines for children. She makes her home on the Monterey Peninsula.
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Big Sur Inn is a must read for anyone who plans to travel to the Big Sur, Carmel, Monterey area. Becby Anonymous
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April 22, 2009: Evidently Anita Alan spent many nites there when the original owners ran the inn. She knows about every piece of memorabilia on the walls or shelves and can tell the story of who gave it, or how it got there. There are wonderful walkways around the inn which she describes perfectly. I could hardly wait to touch a match to the easy to light logs in the wood fireplace in the room my sister and I stayed in. Each room has a name.
This is definitely not the Ritz, but a wonderful rustic place to get away from it all. Just as she described the food is excellent too. I can't believe all the research that went into this...definitely worth the read.
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