How California became a health haven for proto-hippies, ‘Sun Seekers’ and modernists
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In “Sun Seekers: The Cure of California,” Lyra Kilston complicates the history of health in the Golden State with stories that meander even further back to the mid-19th century and to wellness crazes of Europe.