A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
Title | A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Brahinsky |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520288378 |
An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies? With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region.
Crossing the Bar
Title | Crossing the Bar PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Lobo |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1944824014 |
There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a licensed harbor pilot in those treacherous waters, Lobo captained nearly 6,500 boats in a thirty-one year career—everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to the Love Boat. Each trip tells its own story, and Lobo shares many. Here readers will find gripping, tense adventure stories, all well told. Reading Crossing the Bar is like being on the rolling bridge with Lobo. Here are tragic deaths and lives saved, inspiring rescues, devastating storms, and the infamous and horrendous oil spill after the Cosco Busan rammed the Oakland Bay Bridge—which resulted in the first imprisonment of a maritime pilot for making an error. Readers will also find a December sea rescue Lobo assisted with in hurricane strength winds and monstrous seas. Without Lobo’s pilot boat and its crews’ supreme effort, the ship they saved would have foundered on the rocky Marin County, California, coastline with the loss of all hands. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
San Francisco Bay
Title | San Francisco Bay PDF eBook |
Author | John Hart |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Natural history |
ISBN | 0520233999 |
A magnificent pictorial tribute to the San Francisco Bay and the Delta region, which together make one of the world's great estuaries. This book celebrates the Bay's beauty and its importance to the region, and inspires those who are helping restore and protect it.
Down by the Bay
Title | Down by the Bay PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Booker |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2020-06-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520355563 |
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.
Cruising Guide to San Francisco Bay
Title | Cruising Guide to San Francisco Bay PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Mehaffy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780939837311 |
The definitive Guide for San Francisco Bay. In this updated and expanded second edition, this comprehensive cruising guide includes four more destinations outside the Bay: Pillar Point Harbor, Drakes Bay, Bodega Harbor, and Tomales Bay. For the more than 70 destinations covered, the authors give detailed instructions on how to get there safely, where to anchor or tie up, and what to do there.The Mehaffys have updated the information about the marinas and anchorages. Includes 30 harbor diagrams, over 200 photos. Indispensable for Bay boaters.
Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco
Title | Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel Costansó |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In July 1769 the first Spanish land expedition to explore California set out from San Diego to march to Monterey Bay, but didn't recognize it when they stood on its shore. They kept headed north, and in early November discovered San Francisco Bay. -- Appearance and customs of the Indians. -- Locations of the expedition's campsites. -- Following the route on modern roads. -- Place names, old and new.
San Francisco Harbor, Its Commerce and Docks
Title | San Francisco Harbor, Its Commerce and Docks PDF eBook |
Author | Federated harbor improvement associations, San Francisco |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Harbors |
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