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Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786 by Jean François de la Pérouse 9780930588397
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.51On 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,... -
San Francisco's Chinatown by Dick Evans 9781597145206
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £18.31“...a marvelous book and a great contribution to Chinatown, the Chinese-American community, and to the world community. I am amazed at your photography, your appreciation of color, your mastery of... -
Wild Colors of the West Elaine Miller Bond 9781597144094
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Is your favorite color warm and sunny, or is it cool like water? Does it appear with the rain, or does it glow and shine in the sun? In the latest board book from the author of Living Wild,... -
Stickeen by John Muir 9780930588489
Booksplease Price: £9.27An illustrated edition of the well-loved tale in which world-famous naturalist John Muir recounts how he and a dog named Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An... -
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California (with a New Preface) by Beth Pratt 9781597146388
Booksplease Price: £18.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146388Author Beth PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest by Satsuki Ina 9781597146265
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice—and how their story echoes across generations.In 1942 newlyweds Itaru and Shizuko Ina were settling into... -
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors by Greg Sarris 9781597146296
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland."A fascinating and evocative memoir in essays."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTribal chairman and... -
The Forgetters: Stories by Greg Sarris 9781597146302
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A tender, astonishing, and richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world."Greg Sarris once again tells us a story filled with stories that lift the... -
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline Rosanna Xia 9781597146586
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Now in paperback: a "deeply researched and reported" (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that "breathes exquisite detail and dialogue" (Science Magazine) into the... -
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up 9781597146890
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146890Format PaperbackImprint Heyday BooksPublisher Heyday Books -
Birds of Santa Cruz by Sophie Wood Brinker 9781597147095
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00A colorfully realized guide to the birds of Santa Cruz.This charming, full-color guide to the birds of Santa Cruz is infused with California coastal soul and the quiet fierceness of love one can only... -
High Spirits: The Legacy Bars of San Francisco J. K. Dineen 9781597143127
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Community, heritage, architecture-oh yes, and stiff pours: these are the hallmarks of San Francisco's Legacy Bars. High Spirits leads readers on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood pub crawl in search of... -
The State of Fire: How, Where, and Why California Burns Obi Kaufmann 9781597146517
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25How do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.Fire is an essential part of California's ecology. Humans have been using it to... -
Morning in Marin: Zen, Drugs, and Ewoks on the California Coast by David Perlis 9781597147279
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38A revelatory cultural history of free spirits and wild ideas from Alan Watts to George Lucas and far beyond.Cross the Golden Gate and enter the rollicking creative scene of midcentury Marin County, a... -
Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything In It by Charles Hood 9781597146661
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Lauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor."Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood may be... -
Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute (With a New Preface) by Ivy Anderson 9781597147217
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.96"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... -
Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations John Tateishi 9781597146463
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75The story of how nearly 100,000 Americans achieved reparations and an official apology for one of the most shameful episodes in US history."Redress gives us an insider's step-by-step view of how a... -
The Birds in the Oaks: Secret Voices of the Western Woods Jack Gedney 9781597146593
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64The first book on the birds of California's oaks, from our most lyrical and observant wanderer of the woods.With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow,... -
Title TK 9781597146920
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146920Format PaperbackImprint Heyday BooksPublisher Heyday Books -
Alice Piper Speaks Up by Sage Andrew Romero 9781597147057
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Volume 3 in the acclaimed Fighting for Justice Series for young readers: the story of a Native teenager's history-making fight for equal education."Alice Piper Speaks Up is a necessary, accessible,... -
California Lizards and How to Find Them 9781597146715
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146715Format PaperbackImprint Heyday BooksPublisher Heyday Books -
Compassion in Crisis: A Guide to Community Preparedness by Kate Rose Weiner 9781597147118
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25A vibrant and holistic grassroots guide to disaster preparedness that builds community resilience.polycrisis noun /‘pa:.li,krai.sis/a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering caused by... -
Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays Steve Wasserman 9781597146470
Booksplease Price: £25.99An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens."A troublemaker of the good... -
The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California's Public Lands by Josh Jackson 9781597146753
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.63A galvanizing road trip across California's immense public wilderness from a beloved adventurer.It all began with a camping trip. Outdoor enthusiast Josh Jackson had never heard of "BLM land" before... -
Ocean Beach: Fog, Fauna, and Flora 9781597146944
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597146944Format HardbackImprint Heyday BooksPublisher Heyday Books -
Trail Work: Restoring the Paths and Stories of America's Public Lands by Dillon Osleger 9781597147132
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Mapping the past—and the future—of American trails."Dillon Osleger is a new voice in the wilderness, and what a voice it is." —Jason Roberts, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Every Living ThingIn... -
![Mark Twain's San Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The livest heartiest community on our continent" by America's Greatest Writer by Mark Twain 9781597144896](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10022346/11038756/9781597144896__13024.1787552883.jpg?c=1 "Mark Twain's San Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The livest heartiest community on our continent" by America's Greatest Writer by Mark Twain 9781597144896")
Mark Twain's San Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on "The livest heartiest community on our continent" by America's Greatest Writer by Mark Twain 9781597144896
Booksplease Price: £17.37Jumping frogs, high society, San Francisco's Emperor Norton and the stray dogs that followed on his heels-nothing escaped Mark Twain's scrutiny or his acerbic wit. Bernard Taper has gathered together... -
Fup by Jim Dodge
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Start with Granddaddy Jake Santee, a cantankerous, ninety-nine-year-old coot with a taste for gambling and whiskey; add in Tiny, his gentle giant of an adopted grandson, whose passion for building... -
Tahoe beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America's Largest Mountain Lake by Scott Lankford 9781597141390
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.49In 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.60From 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: £10.73My 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: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.85It 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: £12.38A 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... -
California Amphibians and How to Find Them by Emily Taylor 9781597146999
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00A welcoming, laugh-out-loud, conservation-minded guide to California's salamanders and frogs.Frisky frogs and secretive salamanders: For these marvelous creatures, California is one massive wild... -
An Indian among Los Indigenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63A gripping, witty memoir about indigeneity, travel, and colonialism When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of... -
Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond: An Illustrated Guide 9781597146852
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £24.80An illustrated obsession, a guidebook, a kaleidoscope of life on the wing."If you live in the Bay Area and wish to know the butterflies, this is the only field guide you'll ever need." -Lewis Hyde,... -
The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds by John Muir Laws 9781597141956
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves.Here, artistic technique and... -
Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life by Cynthia L. Haven
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The first book about the Nobel Laureate's transformative but conflicted time in the Golden State."There is much to learn from this book about Milosz and California, yes, but also about poetry and the... -
Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past by Tony Platt 9781597145596
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.91How do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them? Whether by curious Boy Scouts and "backyard archaeologists" or competitive collectors and... -
Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors Greg Sarris 9781597145671
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.43A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris-whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise...