by Ann Marie Brown, Foghorn Outdoors, 2003, 340 pages, $17.95 (www.foghorn.com). Visually engaging and rich in information, this second addition of 101 Great Hikes presents trail descriptions written with...
by Marc Reisner, Pantheon Books, 2003, 181 pages, $22. Don’t let the hyperinflated housing market fool you. The Bay Area is sit-uated atop some of the most seismically unappealing...
by Brian Fagan, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003, 288 pages, $24.95 (www.altamirapress.com). In this new book archaeologist Brian Fagan succeeds in compiling various ele-ments of the history of California...
6th Edition, by the California Coastal Commission, University of California Press, 2003, 304 pages, $22.50 (www.ucpress.edu). If you love to hike the coastline, visit tidepools or simply get your...
by Tracy Salcedo-Chourré, Globe Pequot Press, 2003, 318 pages, $16.95 (www.falcon.com). This new book covers two of the Bay Area’s finest public open space treasures, where beaches, coves, undulating...
by Linda H. Beidleman and Eugene N. Kozloff, University of California Press, 2003, 505 pages, $29.95 (www.ucpress.edu). Linda H. Beidleman, an instructor at UC Berkeley’s Jepson Herbarium, and Eugene...
by John Hart (text) and David Sanger (photography), University of California Press, 2003, 212 pages, $34.95 (www.ucpress.edu). Early European explorers sailed right past the mouth of the San Francisco Bay;...
by David A. Ebert (text) and Matthew D. Squillante (illustrations), University of California Press, 2003, 284 pages, $19.95 (www.ucpress.edu). Bat rays. Great whites. Ratfishes. Mantas. Who isn’t at least...
by Jessica Lage, Wilderness Press, 2003, 308 pages, $17.95 (www.wildernesspress.com). Author Jessica Lage must have worn out many pairs of running shoes while researching her Trail Runner’s Guide. This...
by Glenn Keator, University of California Press, 2002, 251 pages, $14.95 (www.ucpress.edu). Bay Area botanist Glenn Keator, author of The Life of an Oak: An Intimate Portrait (Heyday Books,...
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