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Stickeen מאת John Muir An illustrated edition of the tale in which John Muir recounts how he and a dog named Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An exhilarating story that has become an American classic....

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Discovering Nature's Alphabet מאת Krystina Castella If you stand in just the right place, at just the right time, you are going to see some pretty amazing things. Like the three tall branches leaning against one another, creating the letter A. Or the spines of a cactus forming the letter F. And it looks like that bent, twisting tree trunk makes the b...

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Peace Is a Four-Letter Word מאת Janet Nichols Lynch Emily Rankin is a normal sixteen-year-old girl, the daughter of orange ranchers in rural Visalia, California. She is a cheerleader and A student, and her boyfriend is the star center for the basketball team. She also has a new history teacher, Dr. Connell McKenzie, who is challenging Emily to think ...

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Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints מאת Tom Killion and Gary Snyder Seventy-two views of Mt. Tamalpais 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, trail b...

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Ecotopia מאת Ernest Callenbach A novel portraying a future ecologically sustainable society located in what was formerly the states of Washington, Oregon, and northern California. It is a hopeful vision of what industrial society must become if it is to survive, presented in news-story and diary entry forms. Callenbach gives us a...

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Medicine Trails: A Life in Many Worlds מאת Mavis McCovey A contemporary medicine woman tells her story Mavis McCovey makes no exotic claims about her powers, but describes those functions as seamlessly integrated in Karuk culture. More importantly, she describes a living contemporary culture, enriching the melancholy beauty of our shared world. Freeman Ho...

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Nothing Left In My Hands מאת Kazuko Nakane A respected Japanese American historical text now back in print In 1978, Kazuko Nakane interviewed a number of immigrants from Japan who then lived in California s Pajaro Valley. Originally a class project at the University of California, Santa Cruz, her findings were compiled into a book that was p...

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Where Light takes its Color From the Sea מאת James D. Houston Inspired by the California landscape, Where Light Take Its Color from the Sea reveals a writer s nuanced appreciation of place and exhibits his mastery of style. From the cupola of his house in Santa Cruz that radiant city by the sea Houston introduces us to subjects closest to his heart: the timewo...

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No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California's Deserts (California Legacy) מאת Ruth Nolan The first literary anthology of California s fabled deserts Feared and romanticized throughout the ages, the desert has a hold on our imagination that is never more evident than in the literature it has inspired. From Mary Austin s meditations in The Land of Little Rain to Joan Didion s acerbic cast...

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Edges of Bounty:Adventures in the Edible Valley מאת William Emery (Writer) and Scott Squire (Photographer) A writer and photographer's adventures through small-farm California Writer William Emery and photographer Scott Squire embarked on an adventure through California's Central Valley in search of a different way of life. They sought the secrets of people engaged in the production of their own food a...

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The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) מאת John Muir Laws With more than 2,800 original watercolor illustrations, John Muir Laws has masterfully catalogued over 1,700 species of Sierra trees, wildflowers, ferns, fungi, lichens, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, insects, and other small animals. The guide is designed for quick and easy use in the ...

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Flowering Shrubs of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada מאת Shirley Spencer

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Rare Botanical Legacy: The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer מאת Rick Bennett Illustrations of some of California s most exotic flora Del Norte County is one of the most botanically diverse regions of California. In 1936, when Ruby Van Deventer, at the time an unschooled enthusiast, met California s lead field botanist, Professor Willis Linn Jepson, he was enthusiastic. I am ...

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All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. On Its Streets מאת J. Michael Walker Proud, defiant, thoughtful, and at times melancholy, the saints in this beautifully designed people's history of L.A. reveal their own unique versions of transcendence and, in doing so, challenge traditional notions of what it means to be blessed. Playfully borrowing from various artistic genres fro...

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Mountains and Molehills: Or Recollections of Burnt Journal (California Legacy) מאת Frank Marryat General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Harper...

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Riverbig מאת Aris Janigian This broad-shouldered work of fiction the follow-up to Bloodvine, Aris Janigian s acclaimed first novel continues the tale of Andy Demerjian, the college-educated farmer. Set in California s Central Valley, and ranging in time from World War II to the drug wars of the 1960s, Riverbig is a poignant...

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Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada מאת Robert C. Pavlik A biography of the notorious but beloved mountaineer who achieved more than 100 first ascents Norman Clyde is one of the most illustrious Sierra mountaineers of the first half of the twentieth century. He was the first person to ascend more than one hundred peaks throughout western North America, ...