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Rivers of California: Nature's Lifelines in the Golden State
Photographs and text by Tim Palmer

The classic images of California are those of sunny beaches, redwoods, and the Sierra Nevada. Yet California is also a land of rivers--about ninety of them with thousands of forks, branches, and creeks. Totaling 194,000 miles, they cover more area...

Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi

Wherever There's a Fight captures the sweeping story of how freedom and equality have grown in California, from the gold rush right up to the precarious post-9/11 era. The book tells the stories of the brave individuals who have stood...

Medicine Trails: A Life in Many Worlds
Mavis McCovey and John F. Salter

Sometime in 1933, in Northern California's lush Humboldt County, a Karuk medicine woman named Daisy Jones had a vision identifying the tribe's next medicine woman. Later that year, Mavis Smither (McCovey) was born, and in the first twelve years of...

The Laws Pocket Guide Set: San Francisco Bay Area
John Muir Laws

Created by the author and illustrator of the popular Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, this set of habitat guides makes plant and animal identification fun and easy. The box set contains four user-friendly foldout guides and is small...

Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints
Tom Killion and Gary Snyder

In a new collaboration by the authors of the bestselling The High Sierra of California, readers are introduced to the unique mountain overlooking San Francisco Bay. A source of story and myth since time began, Mt. Tamalpais has inspired conservationists,...

Mother Goose in California
Conceived and Illustrated by Doug Hansen

Once upon a time, before the Second World War, children's books were whimsical, colorful, and exuberant. Artists and authors such as Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Howard Garis, and Walter Brooks bestowed wide-eyed wonder on generations of children. Artist Doug...

Wallace Stegner's West
Edited with an introduction by Page Stegner

This collection of Wallace Stegner's fiction and essays is as broad as the Great Basin and as dynamic as California's coastline. Considered one of the foremost writers of the West, Stegner ranges with ease from Utah to California, and from...

Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy
Bonnie J. Gisel with images by Stephen J. Joseph; Foreword by David Rains Wallace

Stunned into awe by the orchid Calypso borealis, John Muir wrote: "I never before saw a plant so full of life, so perfectly spiritual, it seemed pure enough for the throne of its Creator." Muir was blessed throughout his life...

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco–Monterey Bay Area
Malcolm Margolin; Illustrations by Michael Harney

Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other...

The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Written and Illustrated by John Muir Laws

In this groundbreaking and meticulously field-tested guide, the rich variety of Sierra life—trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, and insects—comes alive. Easy-to-use features include: • Intuitive organization, color tabs, and simple keys • Similar-looking species side...

Journey to Topaz
Yoshiko Uchida

Based on Yoshiko Uchida's personal experiences, this is the moving story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II. In a bleak and dusty prison camp, eleven-year-old Yuki and her family experience both...

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck; Introduction by Charles Wollenberg

Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the...