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These 4 items are available for $72, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAL51)

Eyewitness Guide California  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 630 PAGES A literate, visually rich guide to the Golden State, featuring color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of California's attractions with a particular focus on San Francisco and Los Angeles. It includes a well chosen section on hotels and restaurant. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (USW146, $30.00)
Assembling California  •  John McPhee NATURAL HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Another fine book on geology and natural history from John McPhee, this time in the company of Eldridge Moores, on travels throughout California. A seismologist at the University of California at Davis, Moores is an excellent guide to the complex tectonics of the region. There's no one better at explaining geology than McPhee. (USW187, $15.00)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to California  •  Peter Alden FIELD GUIDE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES A compact photographic guide to 1,000 of California's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects, birds and other flora and fauna. It includes an extensive overview of the state's geology, weather patterns and natural sites, along with 1,500 color photographs and 20 maps. (CAL07, $19.95)
California Map  •  Hildebrand 2000 •  MAP A folded map of California, shown at a scale of 1:700,000. (CAL55, $11.95)

Compass Guide Coastal California  •  John Doerper  •  Galen Rowell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact guide is an excellent overview of coastal California, with particular emphasis on history, nature and visitor attractions. (CAL38, $21.00)
The Tahoe Sierra, A Natural History Guide to 112 Hikes in Northern Sierra  •  Jeffrey P. Schaffer   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to trails and hikes in the Tahoe Sierra region. (CAL96, $19.95)
California Fault, Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas  •  Thurston Clarke   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A good natured portrait of the Golden State. (CAL33, $12.95)
California, A History  •  Kevin Starr   • HISTORY  •  A lively short history in the excellent Modern Library Chronicles series, written by a renowned historian. (CAL204, $14.95)
Empire Express, Building the First Transcontinental Railroad  •  David Haward Bain   • HISTORY  •  A magisterial history of the railroad that connected the East to the West -- and radically changed the face of America. It is quite a tale, featuring greed, corruption, disaster and many memorable characters. (USW135, $20.00)
Napa Stories, Profiles, Reflections and Recipes from the Napa Valley  •  Michael Chiarello  •  Janet Kessel Fletcher  •  Steven Rothfeld   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The author of "The Tra Vigne Cookbook" serves up this delightfully readable profile of Napa wines and winemakers, chronicling the origins of various wineries, the vineyard families, the struggles of the early days, the development of new varietals, the current winemaking climate and prospects for the future. With 150 photographs. (CAL77, $55.00)
Rush for Riches, Gold Fever and the Making of California  •  J. S. Holliday   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated, oversize history of the California Gold Rush and its effects by a noted expert, covering the 1830's through the 1890's and packed with more than 200 illustrations and archival photographs. (USW190, $38.95)
Farewell to Manzanar  •  Jeanne W. Houston  •  James D. Houston   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The best-selling memoir of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. (CAL93, $6.99)
Highway 99, The Literature of California's Great Central Valley  •  Stan Yogi   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An excellent anthology of literature about the vast swathe of California that lies between San Francisco and L.A, including contemporary pieces, along with the writing of John Muir, John Steinbeck and William Saroyan. (CAL92, $16.00)
Natural State, A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing  •  Steven Gilbar   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Divided by ecological region, this book is a literary tour of California's unrivaled natural diversity, featuring essays and excerpts by such great writers as Barry Lopez, Gretel Ehrlich and John McPhee. Gary Snyder provided the afterword. (CAL101, $22.95)
The Literature of California, Vol. 1  •  Jack Hicks  •  Al Young  •  James D. Houston  •  Maxine Hong Kingston   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A best-of anthology of California writing, pre-1945. (CAL102, $24.95)
Angle of Repose  •  Wallace Stegner   • LITERATURE  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man's search for his grandparents' story. It beautifully weaves the history of the American West and a glimpse of their life in California, Colorado and Idaho. (USW301, $16.00)
California, America's High-stakes Experiment  •  Peter Schrag   • LITERATURE  •  (CAL201, $35.00)
The Measure of Her Powers, An M.F.K. Fisher Reader  •  M. F. K. Fisher   • LITERATURE  •  A fat, judicious selection of M.F.K. Fisher's writings, which spanned a lifetime and chronicled adventures (culinary and otherwise) in France, Switzerland and Italy, on shipboard and in her native California. (CUL01, $22.95)
An Island Called California, An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities  •  Elna S. Bakker   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An introduction to the ecology and wildlife of the Golden State, this volume is filled with photographs illustrating a variety plants, animals and geological features found throughout the deserts, forests and coastline of California. (CAL11, $22.95)
My First Summer in the Sierra  •  John Muir  •  Galen Rowell   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Muir's original account of his first summer in Yosemite and surrounding High Sierras, which he wrote based on his youthful notebooks of the summer of 1869. (CAL47, $10.00)
Oaks of California  •  Bruce Pavlik  •  Pamela Muick  •  Sharon Johnson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A natural history of the oak in California. (CAL63, $22.95)
Plant Life in the World's Mediterranean Climates  •  Paul Dallman   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Richly illustrated, clearly written and engaging, this book is an ecological overview of the landscapes, plants and vegetation types found in Mediterranean climates. (MED21, $35.95)
Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest  •  Elizabeth Horn   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy photo-identification guide to 200 species from British Columbia south to northern California, divided by habitats and plant family. (PNW15, $14.00)