Overview
Lee Foster invites you to explore the history of the San Francisco Bay Area and then roam all of Northern California. He has wandered the territory, from the Oregon border south through Sequoia National Park and the Big Sur Coast. California history, both human culture and man’s interaction with nature, is his favorite subject. He delights in the concept of man saving and preserving nature, a notion to which California made major contributions, starting with John Muir. In 35 suggested trips, Lee guides you to explore for yourself. What might you ask and discover as the answers in your trips?
What will you discover?
The Table of Contents, with its 35 alluring options, is your best enticement to consider the book.San Francisco Bay Area
1. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: Spanning the Gap
2. San Francisco's Cable Cars: Ride the Cars, Visit the Museum
3. Historic Chinatown San Francisco: The Cantonese Enclave
4. San Francisco’s Victorian Architecture: The Legacy that Survived the 1906 Quake and Fire
5. Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay: The Secure Prison and the Island of Immigrant Hope
6. Berkeley: Free Spirits and Free Speech at the University of California
7. Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Heritage: Three Great Museums Tell the Computer/Technology Story of Modern California
8. Visiting Leland Stanford’s “Farm”: Now Stanford University in California
9. San Mateo’s California Coast-side: Shipwrecks and the Portuguese Coast North of San Francisco
10. Sir Francis Drake’s California Landing: Where in Point Reyes?
11. The Russian Outpost in California: Fort Ross on the Mendocino Coast
12. Art and the Gray Whale: The Town of Mendocino,
California Napa and Sonoma
13. The Visionary of California’s Calistoga: Sam Brannan’s Hot Springs
14. “The Wine Is Bottled Poetry”: Writer Robert Louis Stevenson in California’s Napa Valley
15. Mariano Vallejo’s California Hospitality: The Sonoma Town Square
16. The California Socialist as Literary Entrepreneur: Jack London’s Valley of the Moon
17. The Father of California Agriculture: Luther Burbank’s Legacy in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County
Redwood Country
18. Redwood Grandeur Along California’s Highway 101: Avenue of the Giants and the Company Town of Scotia
19. Eureka: California’s Redwood Lumber Baron Town
20. Redwood National and State Parks: Saving the Tallest Trees in Far Northern
California Shasta-Cascade Region
21. Apocalypse in California: When Lassen Peak Erupted in 1914
22. Shasta City and Shasta Dam in California: The Northern Gold Rush and the Enduring Wealth of Water
Sacramento and the Gold Country
23. Dreams of an Agricultural Empire in California: John Sutter’s Vision in Sacramento
24. The Iron Road Across the California Sierra: Old Sacramento and the Railroad Museum
25. One Lucky Day at the Sawmill: How James Marshall Discovered Gold in California Along the American River at Coloma
26. Rambling California’s Historic Gold Country Highway 49: Starting with Columbia, the Preserved Gold Rush Town
27. Meandering the California Delta: The Chinese Town of LockeThe Sierra
28. The Discovery and Saving of California’s Yosemite: A Militiaman’s Emotions
29. Yosemite’s Wawona: A Historic Hotel and the Big Trees of California
30. East Side of the California Sierra: Natural Beauty and the Struggle for Water
31. The California Bristlecone Pines: Oldest Living Things on Earth
32. A Tale of California’s Mammoth Trees: The Giant Inland Sequoias of Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
Monterey and Santa Cruz
33. Father Junipero Serra’s California Missions: His Headquarters in Carmel
34. Monterey: California’s First Capital
35. California’s Santa Cruz: The Beach Boardwalk and The Progressive University
The Author:
Lee Foster is an award-winning travel writer/photographer living in Berkeley, CA. His work has won numerous awards. Much of his travel journalism can be seen on his website at www.fostertravel.com.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940163302642 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Lee Foster |
| Publication date: | 08/06/2019 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
Lee Foster, born in 1943, grew up in a Minnesota of fishing for black bass, playing baseball, and hunting for ring-necked pheasants. He was the son of a factory owner in Mankato, a small city of 30,000. He took an under¬graduate degree in Great Books at the University of Notre Dame and a graduate degree in English-American Literature at Stanford University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After these years of reading, some travel in Europe, and an increasing interest in photog-raphy, he began his own books of fiction and nonfiction. His main attention in recent decades has been travel writ-ing/photography. He now lives in Berkeley, California. His range of travel journalism can be seen on his Foster Travel Publishing website at http://www.fostertravel.com. He has been active in developing travel articles, photos, books, ebooks, apps, websites, and now audiobooks. Some of his work has been with traditional publishers; other efforts have been as an independent publisher. Over the years, Lee has published travel writing/photography in almost all the leading U.S. travel magazines and newspapers. His book partnerships include the use of his travel photos in more than 300 Lonely Planet books. His main personal books/ebooks are listed on his website at http://www.fostertravel.com/shop/. His recent works currently available include: 2015: Minnesota Boy: Growing Up in Mid-America, Mid-20th Centu-ry (book, ebook, a re-publication on his 1970 book Just 25 Cents and Three Wheaties Boxtops) 2015-2009: Three Sutro Media travel apps: San Francisco Travel and Pho-to Guide, Berkeley Essential Guide, and Washington DC Travel and Photo Guide 2014: Travels in an American Imagination: The Spiritual Geography of Our Time (audiobook in 2014, book from 2005, ebook from 2013) 2013: Northern California Travel: The Best Options (book, ebook, website) Back Roads California (publisher Dorling Kindersley, co-author, book) 2009: The Photographer’s Guide to San Francisco (publisher Coun-tryman Press, book, ebook) The Photographer’s Guide to Washington DC (publisher Coun-tryman Press, co-author, book, ebook) 2002: Northern California History Weekends (publisher Globe Pe-quot, book)
Table of Contents
The Table of Contents, with its 35 alluring options, is your best enticement to consider the book.
San Francisco Bay Area
1. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: Spanning the Gap
2. San Francisco's Cable Cars: Ride the Cars, Visit the Museum
3. Historic Chinatown San Francisco: The Cantonese Enclave
4. San Francisco’s Victorian Architecture: The Legacy that Survived the 1906 Quake and Fire
5. Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay: The Secure Prison and the Island of Immigrant Hope
6. Berkeley: Free Spirits and Free Speech at the University of California
7. Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Heritage: Three Great Museums Tell the Computer/Technology Story of Modern California
8. Visiting Leland Stanford’s “Farm”: Now Stanford University in California
9. San Mateo’s California Coast-side: Shipwrecks and the Portuguese
Coast North of San Francisco
10. Sir Francis Drake’s California Landing: Where in Point Reyes?
11. The Russian Outpost in California: Fort Ross on the Mendocino Coast
12. Art and the Gray Whale: The Town of Mendocino, California
Napa and Sonoma
13. The Visionary of California’s Calistoga: Sam Brannan’s Hot Springs
14. “The Wine Is Bottled Poetry”: Writer Robert Louis Stevenson in California’s Napa Valley
15. Mariano Vallejo’s California Hospitality: The Sonoma Town Square
16. The California Socialist as Literary Entrepreneur: Jack London’s Valley of the Moon
17. The Father of California Agriculture: Luther Burbank’s Legacy in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County
Redwood Country
18. Redwood Grandeur Along California’s Highway 101: Avenue of the Giants and the Company Town of Scotia
19. Eureka: California’s Redwood Lumber Baron Town
20. Redwood National and State Parks: Saving the Tallest Trees in Far Northern California
Shasta-Cascade Region
21. Apocalypse in California: When Lassen Peak Erupted in 1914
22. Shasta City and Shasta Dam in California: The Northern Gold Rush and the Enduring Wealth of Water
This is a sample of 22 of the 35 chapters!