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San Francisco, Sonoma & Napa Valleys
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCAL105) |
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Eyewitness Guide San Francisco and Northern California
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of San Francisco and Northern California's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(USW147, $25.00) |
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A Tale of Two Valleys
• Alan Deutschman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
In this intimate portrait of Napa and Sonoma -- and the often acrimonious cultural divide between California's two premiere wine-producing areas -- journalist Alan Deutschman combines sketches of people and places with interview and commentary. He captures the bohemian cool of Sonoma and the oh-so-affluent Napa wine estates (and pretensions).
(CAL196, $16.00) |
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Travelers' Tales San Francisco
• James O'Reilly
• Larry Habegger
• Sean O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of mostly contemporary eyewitness reports, all set in the city of San Francisco; a great literary profile of a dynamic city.
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California Map
• Borch Maps
2008 •
MAP
A laminated, folded map of California, shown at a scale of 1:1,100,000. Two Sides. 19.5X26] inches.
(CAL55, $9.95) |
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Also Recommended
MapEasy's Guidemap to Napa & Sonoma
• MapEasy
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A handy, informative road map and guide to wineries.
(CAL118, $7.95)
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San Francisco Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated, folded map of the city center of San Francisco at a nice scale of 1:13,000.
(CAL80, $8.95)
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Compass Guide California Wine Country
• John Doerper
• GUIDEBOOK
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Covering wineries both small and large, this comprehensive guide to the Napa and Sonoma Valleys includes excellent maps, color photographs and informative essays.
(USW171, $21.99)
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Fodor's San Francisco's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A shirt-pocket guide to San Francisco, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights.
(USW185, $12.99)
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California the Beautiful
• Galen Rowell
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Rowell's exquisite photographs are accompanied by excerpts from Joan Didion, M.F.K. Fisher, Jack London, William Saroyan and many other luminaries in this celebration of the nature and spirit of California.
(CAL277, $19.95)
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Napa, the Story of an American Eden
• James Conway
• HISTORY
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Conway expertly combines history, personal anecdote, wine criticism and social commentary into a definitive portrait of a place, overflowing not only with cabernets and chardonnays, but also with genuine connoisseurs, scores of dilettantes, feuds, scandals and plenty of money.
(USW169, $17.95)
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The National Parks, America's Best Idea
• Dayton Duncan
• Ken Burns
• HISTORY
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The widescreen edition of Ken Burn's 6-part, 12-hour ode to the national parks, featuring hundreds of interviews, fascinating archival images and dazzling cinematography in High Definition.
(USA394, $99.99)
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The West: An Illustrated History
• Ken Burns
• Geoffrey C. Ward
• HISTORY
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The lavish illustrated companion to the PBS series with essays from seven renowned writers and historian.
(USW674, $27.99)
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Fifth Chinese Daughter
• Jade Snow Wong
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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First published in 1945, Jade Snow Wong's memoir is a simply told, moving story of family life in pre-WWII San Francisco Chinatown.
(SFO08, $14.95)
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Horatio's Drive, America's First Road Trip
• Dayton Duncan
• Ken Burns
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The companion volume to the PBS film chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a 31-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903.
(USA439, $24.95)
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San Francisco Stories, Great Writers on the City
• John Miller
• ANTHOLOGY
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This well-chosen anthology shows the city as seen by wonderful writers, ranging from London, Wolfe and Kerouac to Ann Lamott and Amy Tan.
(CAL168, $14.95)
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San Francisco, A Cultural History
• Mick Sinclair
• LITERATURE
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Organized more thematically than chronologically, this easy-to-read introduction to the city and its neighborhoods will appeal both to first time visitors and those who know and love the city.
(SFO20, $15.00)
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• Joan Didion
• LITERATURE
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A classic collection of essays on the 60s cultural climate, first published in 1968. In the acclaimed title essay, Didion vividly describes the landscape, mood and culture of 60s San Francisco.
(SFO11, $15.00)
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The Valley of the Moon
• Jack London
• LITERATURE
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In part a tribute to his wife and rural life on his ranch in Glen Ellen, London's California novel follows Billy and Saxon Roberts from Oakland to Sonoma, where they strive to live independently on the land.
(CAL169, $21.95)
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The Vineyard
• Idwal Jones
• Robert Mondavi
• LITERATURE
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Evocative of the seasons in the Napa Valley, this novel traces the fate of Alda Pendle, a viticulturist's daughter who becomes a viticulturist herself.
(CAL104, $24.95)
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Assembling California
• John McPhee
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Another fine book on geology and natural history from John McPhee, this time in the company of Eldridge Moores, on travels throughout California.
(USW187, $16.00)
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The National Parks, America's Best Idea
• Ken Burns
• Dayton Duncan
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Now in a paper edition, this lavishly illustrated tale by the dynamic PBS duo brings to life the conservationists, politicians, presidents and dreamers who created our national park system.
(USA356, $32.50)
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to California
• Peter Alden
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact, easy-to-use guide to 1,000 of California's trees, wildflowers, mammals, insects, birds and other flora and fauna.
(CAL07, $19.95)
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Pacific State Wildflowers
• Theodore F. Niehaus
• Charles Ripper
• FIELD GUIDE
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This Peterson field guide covers 1,492 species of wildflowers found from British Columbia to Baja California.
(USW192, $19.00)
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
• David Sibley
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact, geographically specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird.
(USW418, $19.95)
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