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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786 by Jean François de la Pérouse 9780930588397
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.51On the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain's California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists,... -
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California (with a New Preface) by Beth Pratt 9781597146388
Booksplease Price: €21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146388Author Beth PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute (With a New Preface) by Ivy Anderson 9781597147217
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €23.06"An exciting and beautiful story." —Ottessa MoshfeghThe collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's world.Winner of the... -
Tahoe beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America's Largest Mountain Lake by Scott Lankford 9781597141390
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.62In Tahoe Beneath the Surface, human history and natural history combine in a most engaging way, one that will both inform and inspire all who would keep Tahoe blue.Lake Tahoe transformed America, and... -
King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature by William C. Tweed 9781597143516
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.24From a towering tree, one of California's preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of the... -
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir 9781597143394
Booksplease Price: €12.77My First Summer in the Sierra presents Muir's journal entries from his first long-term adventure in Yosemite and the surrounding area, when he helped drive a flock of sheep through the foothills... -
Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II Lawrence DiStasi 9781890771409
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.81It is a little-known fact that in California during World War II, Italian Americans were subjected to an 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew, searches of their homes, seizure of their property, and... -
Essential Muir (Revised): A Selection of John Muir's Best (and Worst) Writings by John Muir
Booksplease Price: €14.73A new edition of Muir's writings that places his environmentalist ideals alongside his damaging prejudices Essayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California's... -
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins 9781597143684
Booksplease Price: €19.96Winner, Carter G. Woodson Book AwardWinner, New-York Historical Society Children's Book PrizeWinner, Social Justice Literature AwardHonor Title, Jane Addams Children's Book AwardFinalist, 2017 Cybils... -
What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn 9781597146326
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.52A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights."Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible-from the level of... -
The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource by Obi Kaufmann 9781597144698
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.41Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water.In this book,... -
Soul City: Oakland, U.S.A. by Ken Light 9781597147316
Booksplease Price: €43.96Uncovered after 50 years, an absorbing and illuminating photographic archive of Black West Oakland in the 1970s."An invaluable window into urban Black America." -Kirkus (starred review)In 1974 Ken... -
Birds of Berkeley by Oliver James 9781597146012
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €14.18"Whether you are an experienced birder or just learning natural history, this book will deepen your sense of place and open insights to beauty, wonder, and connection to the natural world."-John Muir... -
I Love Salmon and Lampreys 9781597146685
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.222025 Read Across America Pick from the National Education Association2026 Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Awarded by the Children's Book CouncilFor young readers, an inspiring story about a river,... -
What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World: A Memoir by Dorothy Lazard
Booksplease Price: €18.72From one of California's most celebrated librarians and public historians, a coming-of-age memoir about the thirst for knowledge and hometown pride.A Best Book of the Year, Oakland Public Library2023... -
Narrating Modernity: The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914 by Pamela M. Fletcher 9781138714014
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €41.16This title was first published in 2003. Problem pictures were very popular during the Edwardian period. These pictures invited multiple interpretations of modern life and were often slightly risque... -
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The Captain's Table: Life and Dining on the Great Ocean Liners by Sarah Edington 9780948065576 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €3.07Recalling the allure and excitement of life on board the great ocean liners, this book fully captures the rich creativity of the cuisine and the ultimate in luxury and service. It expertly re-creates... -
Fort Dunlop Remembered by Chris Jukes 9781858585529
Booksplease Price: €12.64Fort Dunlop, in the Erdington district of Birmingham, was the original tyre factory and main office of Dunlop Rubber which for many years was the jewel in the crown of the Dunlop empire. 'The Fort',... -
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Weather by The Met Office 9781405330930 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.15This title offers an in-depth look at everyone's favourite topic - the weather Wind, cloud, tornadoes, twisters, hurricanes, storms, rain and snow, discover all you need to know about the world's... -
Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square by Bill Landis 9780743215831
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.29Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom! In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the... -
Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations by Jillmarie Murphy 9780367667184
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical... -
Mni Wiconi/Water is Life: Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty by John Willis 9781938086663
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €32.94Viewing Mni Wiconi (Sacred Water of Life) and the No Dakota Access Movement as an isolated happening without acknowledging historical, cultural, and systematic circumstances leading up to it makes no... -
California, a Slave State by Jean Pfaelzer 9780300211641
Booksplease Price: €30.63The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes,... -
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €20.06The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book...