"Ferdinand Haber was one of California's greatest early wine men. Fortunately Haber left a large collection of documents and ephemera, and Allan Green has used his professional graphic design skills to weave them into a pictorial saga of surpassing beauty, a showcase of rare jewels and family love. The reader can almost feel the scratch of nib against the now dog-eared and browning paper. The images are supported by an excellent text written by Ronald Cannon. There are groupings of family portraits and other photographs in this finely bound book of 194 twelve-inch-square pages. Green lays these letters and certificates before the reader in chronological order, letting the weight of the evidence build and a life emerge. We see full-scale documents lovingly reproduced: correspondence, banquet menus, patent applications, hand-tinted travel photos, all of which bring us into the wine world of the late nineteenth century, linking Ferdinand to the highest level of California viticulture." Book review by Marvin Collins.