Get on board for a sunset cruise filled with great food, better drinks and whole lot of fun! The tall ship Matthew Turner will be taking us under the Golden Gate Bridge and around San Francisco Bay. Get ready to haul some lines and raise the sails amongst good friends and friends-to-be.

Plus, come for an exclusive opportunity to meet our special guest, Obi Kaufmann, a renowned California naturalist, artist, and author.  His works include the California Field Atlas, The Coasts of California, and most recently The Deserts of California.

 Journeying through the Great Basin, Mojave, Colorado, and Sonoran Deserts, Kaufmann pays special attention to national and state parks and monuments, and to the dozens of wilderness areas that reveal the underappreciated natural abundance of California’s arid lands. From Joshua Tree to Death Valley, these deserts full of life, as Kaufmann evokes them, are perfect places for meditating on our future, and for imagining a California that might thrive beyond the age of climate breakdown. The Deserts of California is a canonical entry into the literature of the American deserts, uniquely colorful and celebratory, and abounding in hope and wonder.