Describes the culture of Native American inhabitants in the California Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans, offering insight into the daily lives, culture and rituals of the Ohlone while tracin
Born into the Achumawi and Atusgewi tribes (often called the Pit River Nation) of northeastern California, Darryl Babe Wilson’s early years were spent with his parents and eight brothers and sisters,
In the wild, isolated Western frontier, where laws, traditions, and living conditions were like nowhere else in America, it was a bold act for a woman to write and to seek publication. Dame Shirley, I
This collection of personal narratives about life on and around the San Joaquin River in central California examines the relationships between people and place and documents the natural history and cu
This slightly oversize (11.25x11.25) book is filled with a remarkable collection of superb b&w photos of utilitarian structures, now empty and unused, in the wide rural expanses of the Central Val
We bring the strength and beauty of the natural world into our urban landscapes by planting trees, and California is blessed with a rich horticultural history, visible in an abundance of cultivated tr
A documentary look at the critical problems of the most productive farmland in America and the people who work on it by an award-winning team. With an introduction by Thomas Steinbeck .
There are few more intriguing and captivating characters in the history of Hawaii than its last queen, Liliuokalani—the island monarch who could just as easily read Shakespeare as “sit barefooted on a
The Trees of Golden Gate Park is based on the writings of botanist Elizabeth McClintock, whose column on the trees of Golden Gate Park was a feature of Pacific Horticulture magazine for twenty-five ye
When high school student Emily Rankin meets a radical English teacher, the popular cheerleader begins to question her own basic values, the war in Iraq, and the direction her future will take.
