The inscription

Hiking in the countryside of Sonoma County in Northern California, Greg, a retired philosophy professor and history buff, and his wife Andie discover, quite by accident, a sandstone slab containing an intriguing inscription in four different languages. Their discovery transforms a pleasant holiday into a fascinating adventure, in which layers of the past are revealed ingeniously, on inside the other, as the signers and their very different cultures - Russian, Kashaya-Pomo, Coast Miwok, and Hispanic - come to life again. This book presents an interesting recital of legends, family sotries, and illustrations interpreting the lives and traditions of the vasrious people who lived in the lands between Fort Ross and early Occidental from 1812 to almost modern times, in such a fashion that there is a feeling of authenticity and adventure.