Lionel’s Books
First edition of Literary L.A., 1981. The later editions have important expanded content.
Most are available from Amazon
Nature’s Twelve Magic Healers: Amazing Secrets of Cell Salts (with Nigey Lennon, 1978, Prentice Hall)
The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey (1978, Panjandrum; 2014, Boryanabooks)
The Heal Yourself Home Handbook of Unusual Remedies (1983, Prentice Hall Direct)
Last Train North (1987, Panjandrum)
In Search of Literary L.A. (1991, revised in 2002 as just Literary L.A., California Classics)
Bread and Hyacinths: The rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles (with Nigey Lennon and Paul Greenstein, 1992, California Classics)
Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the Underground (1998, California Classics)
Death and Redemption in London & L.A. (2003, Dead End Street Publications)
The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather (2004, California Classics)
Presidents & Near Presidents I Have Known (2009, Boryanabooks)
Reflections From Elsewhere (2010, Boryanabooks)
Disputing Rasputin, Despair & Other Matters That Try My Soul (2012, Boryanabooks)
The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn: A Mostly True Memoir of California Journalism (2013, Boryanabooks)
The Fat Man Returns: The Elusive Hunt for California Bohemia and Other Matters (2017, Boryanabooks).
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
