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Book Review: Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide

October 01, 2004 by Matthew Bettelheim

Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide, by John Muir Laws, California Academy of Sciences/ Heyday Books, 2004, 64 pages, $9.95 (www.heydaybooks.com).

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Book Review: The Best in Tent Camping, Northern California

October 01, 2004 by Kristen Van Dam

The Best in Tent Camping: A Guide for Car Campers Who Hate RVs, Concrete Slabs, and Loud Portable Stereos: Northern

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Book Review: The Trees of San Francisco

October 01, 2004 by Sue Rosenthal

The Trees of San Francisco, by Mike Sullivan, Pomegranate Communications, 2004, 160 pages, $19.95 (www.pomegranate.com).
This is not a book

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Book Review: Tom Stienstra’s Bay Area Recreation

October 01, 2004 by Matthew Bettelheim

Tom Stienstra’s Bay Area Recreation, by Tom Stienstra, Foghorn Outdoors, 2004, 498 pages, $19.95 (www.foghorn.com).
 

In introducing his newest

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Book Review: Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region: Mendocino to Monterey

October 01, 2003 by Irene Barnard

by Linda H. Beidleman and Eugene N. Kozloff, University of California Press, 2003, 505 pages, $29.95 (www.ucpress.edu).
 

Linda H.

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Book Review: San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary

October 01, 2003 by Sierra Senyak

by John Hart (text) and David Sanger (photography), University of California Press, 2003, 212 pages, $34.95 (www.ucpress.edu).
 

Early European

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Book Review: Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California

October 01, 2003 by Lorraine Rath

by David A. Ebert (text) and Matthew D. Squillante (illustrations), University of California Press, 2003, 284 pages, $19.95 (www.ucpress.edu).
 

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Book Review: Trail Runner’s Guide San Francisco Bay Area

October 01, 2003 by Sierra Senyak

by Jessica Lage, Wilderness Press, 2003, 308 pages, $17.95 (www.wildernesspress.com).
 

Author Jessica Lage must have worn out many pairs

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Book Review: Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region

October 01, 2003 by Irene Barnard

by Glenn Keator, University of California Press, 2002, 251 pages, $14.95 (www.ucpress.edu).
 

Bay Area botanist Glenn Keator, author of

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Book Review: 101 Great Hikes of the San Francisco Bay Area

October 01, 2003 by Christine Sculati

by Ann Marie Brown, Foghorn Outdoors, 2003, 340 pages, $17.95 (www.foghorn.com).
 

Visually engaging and rich in information, this second

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