Walking San Francisco

Author : Tom Downs
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459619012

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Walking San Francisco by Tom Downs Pdf

In Walking San Francisco, Tom Downs has created an exceptional guide to exploring the best of the City ''on the ground,'' from North Beach to Lands End, Bernal Heights to Golden Gate Park. Take one of these specially designed walking tours, and you'll not only get great exercise but also soak up the history, culture, and vibe of the City by the Bay. It's like having a savvy tour guide at your side, showing you where to find great mojitos, and pointing out a rare worker-owned strip joint. Two special tours sample the best bars in North Beach and the Mission District. Locals and visitors alike will appreciate insider tips and entertaining asides in the 30 walking trips. Each tour contains a clear neighborhood map and critical public transportation and parking information. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a ''Points of Interest'' section outlines each walk's highlights.

Author : Adah Bakalinsky
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781459619005

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Stairway Walks in San Francisco (Large Print 16pt) by Adah Bakalinsky Pdf

Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco's 42 hills, exposing incredible vistas while connecting colorful, unique neighborhoods, and veteran guide Adah Bakalinsky loves them all. Her updated Stairway Walks in San Francisco explores well-known and clandestine corridors from Lands End to Bernal Heights while sharing captivating architectural, historical, pop culture, and horticultural notes along the way. This revised and expanded edition has been thoroughly updated and includes two additional walks, new maps, and new color photographs. The two new walks presented are: The Blue Greenway Walking, a new history, which follows the Embarcadero and weaves along the present day contour of the Bay into the future parklands and new neighborhood of San Francisco; and Jazz Takes A Walk in the Sunnyside neighborhood where the undulating geology of San Francisco invites one to hear the dance in the walk. A comprehensive appendix lists every one of the City's 600-plus public stairways. Long-term residents and tourists alike have used the book for over 25 years to adventurously uncover San Francisco's unexpected details.

Author : Kristine Poggioli,Carolyn Eidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1610352793

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Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive by Kristine Poggioli,Carolyn Eidson Pdf

San Francisco's famous citywide scenic driving route has been reinvented for a new generation as a green, healthy walking adventure. This turn-by-turn guide takes visitors and natives alike on 17 different up-close walking tours, passing by and through the city's major sights, fascinating neighborhoods, and breathtaking vistas.

Author : Christina Henry De Tessan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 0811838439

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City Walks by Christina Henry De Tessan Pdf

Author : Daniel Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0964680459

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Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail by Daniel Bacon Pdf

A guide to the Barbary Coast Trail, San Francisco's official historical walk.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780899977447

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The Trees of San Francisco by Michael Sullivan Pdf

Trees of San Francisco introduces readers to the rich variety of trees that thrive in San Francisco's unique conditions. San Francisco's cool Mediterranean climate has made it home to interesting and unusual trees from all over the world - trees as colorful and exotic as the city itself. This new guide combines engaging descriptions of sixty-five different trees with color photos that reflect the visual appeal of San Francisco. Each page covers a different tree, with several paragraphs of interesting text accompanied by one or two photos. Each entry for a tree also lists locations where "landmark" specimens of the tree can be found. Interspersed throughout the book are sidebar stories of general interest related to San Francisco's trees. Trees of San Francisco also includes a dozen tree tours that will link landmark trees and local attractions in interesting San Francisco neighborhoods such as the Castro, Pacific Heights and the Mission - walks that will appeal to tourists as well as Bay Area natives.

Author : Adah Bakalinsky,Mary Burk
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780899977508

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Stairway Walks in San Francisco by Adah Bakalinsky,Mary Burk Pdf

Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco's 42 hills, exposing incredible vistas while connecting colorful, unique neighborhoods -- veteran guide Adah Bakalinsky loves them all. Her updated Stairway Walks in San Francisco explores well-known and clandestine corridors from Lands End to Bernal Heights while sharing captivating architectural, historical, pop culture, and horticultural notes along the way. A comprehensive appendix lists every one of the city's 600-plus public stairways. Long-term residents and tourists alike have used the book for over 25 years to adventurously uncover San Francisco's unexpected details.

Author : Gary Kamiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781620401255

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Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya Pdf

"A kaleidoscopic homage both personal and historical . . . Kamiya's symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure." -New York Times Book Review The bestselling love letter to one of the world's great cities, San Francisco, by a life-long Bay Area resident and co-founder of Salon. Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal history, deeply researched history, in-depth reporting, and lyrical prose to create an unparalleled portrait of San Francisco. Each of its 49 chapters explores a specific site or intersection in the city, from the mighty Golden Gate Bridge to the raunchy Tenderloin to the soaring sea cliffs at Land's End. Encompassing the city's Spanish missionary past, a gold rush, a couple of earthquakes, the Beats, the hippies, and the dot-com boom, this book is at once a rambling walking tour, a natural and human history, and a celebration of place itself-a guide to loving any city more faithfully and fully. For readers of E. B. White's Here is New York, Jose Saramago's Journey to Portugal, or Alfred Kazin's A Walker in the City, Cool, Gray City of Love is an ambitious, insightful one-of-a-kind book for a one-of-a-kind city.

Author : Don Herron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025218762

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The Dashiell Hammett Tour by Don Herron Pdf

In this expanded and revised edition, Don Herron's " Dashiell Hammett Tour" guides you over the fog-shrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other legendary characters created by San Francisco's most renowned mystery writer. See every place Hammett is known to have lived in the City and the majority of locales from his master mystery, " The Maltese Falcon." Prowl the back alleys where the Op fought hard-boiled criminals with a blazing .38. Shadow Sam Spade in his quest for the fabulous figurine of a mysterious black bird. See the dead-end alley where Spade's partner, Miles Archer was done in by Brigid O'Shaughnessy. A consise biography introduces the tour, and an annotated bibliography provides further information about Hammett and his works. Maps are included for self-guided tours by foot or machine.

Author : Henry de Tessan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781452165585

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City Walks: San Francisco by Henry de Tessan Pdf

The revised and updated third edition of the classic walking guide to San Francisco. This list of walking tours in San Francisco features brand new neighborhoods, restaurants, shops, and landmarks. Perfect for tourists exploring in the Bay Area, recent transplants, or even locals who want to become familiar with a new part of the city, this ebook shares the hidden gems of San Francisco. Each walk, from The Presidio to Japantown to the Embarcadero and the Exploratorium, is detailed with a full-color map, walking directions, and highlighted stopping points.

Author : Tracy Salcedo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493015320

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Walking San Francisco by Tracy Salcedo Pdf

San Francisco is one of America's most walkable cities, and this book describes 18 walks that can be taken by the casual visitor, including 9 in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the world's largest urban national park. This compact guidebook will walk you through the best San Francisco has to offer. If you're planning to visit San Francisco--or explore your hometown--you'll be sure you're on the right track with this guidebook.

Author : Kathleen Dodge Doherty,Tom Downs
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780899979106

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Walking San Francisco by Kathleen Dodge Doherty,Tom Downs Pdf

Get to Know San Francisco’s Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods From the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the dotcom days, San Francisco is a richly historic city of scenic vistas and diverse neighborhoods. This savvy, entertaining guide explores the best of it all. Kathleen Dodge Doherty and Tom Downs guide you through 35 unique walking tours that traverse San Francisco’s length and breadth. These urban treks are great ways to soak in the vibe of the City by the Bay. The walks’ commentaries include such topics as architecture, local culture, trivia, and neighborhood history, plus tips on where to dine, have a drink, and shop. Each self-guided tour includes full-color photographs, a map, and need-to-know details like distance, difficulty, and more. Route summaries make each walk easy to follow, and a “Points of Interest” section lists the highlights of every tour. Walking San Francisco provides the perfect path for a weekend, an after-work ramble, or a sociable pub crawl. So grab your walking shoes, and become an urban adventurer!

Author : Chris Carlsson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0745340946

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Hidden San Francisco by Chris Carlsson Pdf

San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city's most interesting stories are not the Summer of Love, the Beats or even the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley. Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology, labour, transit and dissent, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of San Francisco's history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries, secret music and poetry venues, forgotten terrorist bombings, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area's long prehistory as well, examining the region's geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything, setting in motion the clash between capital and labour that shaped the modern city. From the perspective of the students and secretaries, longshoremen and waitresses, Hidden San Francisco uncovers dozens of overlooked, forgotten and buried histories that pulse through the streets and hills even today, inviting the reader to see themselves in the middle of the ongoing, everyday process of making history together.

Author : Earl Thollander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 157061010X

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Earl Thollander's San Francisco by Earl Thollander Pdf

Earl Thollander, whose Back Roads series has sold more than 65,000 copies, he re leads 30 fascinating walking tours of San Francisco that show one of the country's most exciting cities in a sparkling new light. 50 black-and-white illustrations and 25 maps.

Author : Wayne Curtis
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781609613730

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The Last Great Walk by Wayne Curtis Pdf

In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk ... across the American continent," and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old. In The Last Great Walk, journalist Wayne Curtis uses the framework of Weston's fascinating and surprising story, and investigates exactly what we lost when we turned away from foot travel, and what we could potentially regain with America's new embrace of pedestrianism. From how our brains and legs evolved to accommodate our ancient traveling needs to the way that American cities have been designed to cater to cars and discourage pedestrians, Curtis guides readers through an engaging, intelligent exploration of how something as simple as the way we get from one place to another continues to shape our health, our environment, and even our national identity. Not walking, he argues, may be one of the most radical things humans have ever done.