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Top 10 Seattle
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 14.00DK Eyewitness Top 10: Seattle gives you the best information on everything from food to events in Seattle. Whether you wish to experience the dizzying heights of the Seattle Center, find the liveliest nightlife, or shop at the Pike Place Market, this travel guide to Seattle is packed with essential information, whatever your budget. There are dozens... more...
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Alaska
DK Publishing 2012; US$ 25.00Whether spotting a moose stopping traffic in Anchorage or exploring Alaska''s stunning glacier-lined coast by cruise ship, the Last Frontier is sure to exceed all expectations. Complete with 3D mapping, extensive hotel and restaurant selections, guided walks and evocative photography, this is the most colorful and comprehensive guide to Alaska on the... more...
Frommer's Napa and Sonoma Day by Day
Wiley 2012; US$ 14.99Map your own adventure. Napa & Sonoma Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the area. Packed with color photos, this bestselling guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of wine country in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way... more...
West of the West
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 15.99In the tradition of Didion, Stegner, and McPhee, an intimate portrait of California in flux by the best-selling author of The King of California more...
Orange County
Scribner 2008; US$ 18.99The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to work in Orange County's citrus groves, where, eventually, thousands of fellow Mexican villagers joined them. Gustavo was born sixty years later, the son of a tomato... more...
Salt to Summit
Counterpoint 2012; US$ 17.95From the depths of Death Valley, Daniel Arnold set out to reach Mount Whitney in a way no road or trail could take him. Anything manmade or designed to make travel easy was out. With a backpack full of empty two-liter bottles, and the remotest corners of desert before him, he began his toughest test yet of physical and mental endurance. Badwater... more...
A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2012; US$ 99.00The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture. more...
Ndeh Ntumazah
Langaa RPCIG 2011; US$ 42.95This rich conversational auto-biography tells the story of the political life of Ndeh Ntumazah who was born in Mankon in 1926, spent the best part of his life suffering and sacrificing for the freedom of Cameroon, and died in London on January 21, 2010, at the age of 83, as President of the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC). Ntumazah was a... more...
The Land of Little Rain
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.00?Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite?east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert? is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares ?such news of the... more...
The Land of Little Rain
Penguin Group US 1997; US$ 13.00Mary Austin calls it the Country of Lost Borders--the desert and foothill lands between Death Valley and the High Sierras. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and unforgiving. But in this classic collection of essays, Austin breathes life into the landscape, describing in loving and knowing detail its savage beauty, its... more...









