San Francisco

  • San Francisco: City of Many Dreams
    By Joanne Dunn

    The movement of the earth brought the hills of rock out of the sea , the water carried sand from the south and deposited it on the edge of the land . The winds , strong enough to blow sand over heights of six hundred feet , carried it ...

  • San Francisco: presidio, port and Pacific Metropolis
    By Robert W. Cherny, William Issel

    San Francisco: presidio, port and Pacific Metropolis

  • San Francisco
    By Robert W. Cherny, William Issel

    San Francisco

  • San Francisco: A Natural History
    By Greg Gaar, Ryder W. Miller

    The “real” San Francisco lies below the streets, sidewalks, and buildings, hidden from view.

  • San Francisco: A Food Biography
    By Erica J. Peters

    Three months after the earthquake, the real St. Francis was hosting banquets again, and the Buon Gusto Italian Restaurant offered “Ravioli Every Day.” In November, the Old Poodle Dog Hotel and Restaurant opened on Eddy Street, ...

  • San Francisco: A Book of Numbers
    By Ashley Evanson

    "From the Golden Gate Bridge to seals to cable cars, there's no shortage of bright, bold, and interesting things to count in San Francisco. Explore numbers through the best the city has to offer..."--Amazon.com.

  • San Francisco: Yesterday & Today
    By J. Kingston Pierce

    Take a visual and historical tour of the city of San Francisco without leaving your living room.

  • San Francisco: The City's Sights and Secrets
    By Leah Garchik

    In addition to the more than 150 breathtaking color photographs of the city as it is today, this distinctive volume contains historic black-and-white photographs and text documenting some of San Francisco's most notable events and monuments ...

  • San Francisco
    By Jerry Dunn

    Over a hundred such ships were buried beneath the city as the shoreline pushed steadily eastward to today's Embarcadero . As San Francisco got rich on gold and silver in the 1850s and 1860s , new banks and financial institutions arose ...

  • San Francisco: The Rough Guide
    By Jamie Jensen, Deborah Bosley, Bruce P. Gerstman

    Eating, drinking (coffee, organic juice, or alcohol), and sleeping (the crucial three), plus dancing, hiking, daytrips, shopping, art, and sightseeing are all covered, with the typical Rough Guide blend of irreverence, practicality, and ...

  • San Francisco: Romantic Diversions in and Around the City
    By Donna Peck

    This true insiders guide to San Francisco reveals alluring nightlife romantic hotels intimate dining venues and much more--even secluded country retreats You say the two of you have lived in San Francisco long enough to forget how to have a ...

  • San Francisco: a Bicycle Travel Journal
    By Applewood Books

    Includes cycling-specific packing and travel tips, trip charts for cycling stats, an on-the-road repair guide, conversion charts, a point page, and a place to record the addresses of loved ones back home--to send postcards, of course!

  • San Francisco
    By Jerry Camarillo Dunn

    San Francisco 49ers, Candlestick Park at Candlestick Point, tel 415/656-4900, www.49ers.com. Football. Scheduled to move to a new one-billion-dollar stadium in Santa Clara in 2014. San Francisco Giants, AT+T Park, tel 415/972-2000, ...

  • San Francisco: The Best Weekend Getaways
    By Karen Misuraca

    Quick Escapes From San Francisco takes the work out of trip planning and features easy-to-follow, carefully planned itineraries for 36- to 48-hour getaways from the metropolitan area.

  • San Francisco: A Book of Numbers
    By Ashley Evanson

    From the Golden Gate Bridge to seals to cable cars, there’s no shortage of bright, bold, and interesting things to count in San Francisco. Explore numbers through the best the city has to offer in this gorgeous board book!

  • San Francisco: The GAY GUIDE: the Gay Friendly Travel Guide Written by a Local
    By Ron Hewitt

    These are the reasons explaining why San Francisco is one of the most popular destinations for gays in the world. You probably heard of the city of San Francisco many times.

  • San Francisco: A New Framework for Building AS/400 Applications
    By IBM Corporation, IBM Corporation Staff

    This book introduces San Francisco, its major components, key concepts, and considerations, and provides an overview of using San Francisco for applications development.

  • San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History
    By Mick Sinclair

    As part of the Cities of the Imagination Series, this book presents an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide to San Francisco, a beautiful city renowned for its artists, eccentrics, visionaries, and activism.

  • San Francisco: A Past-to-present Photo Tour
    By Whitman Publishing

    "With memorabilla from historic sites"--Cover.

  • San Francisco
    By Carol M. Highsmith, Ted Landphair

    And O. Henry, the famed short-story writer, accurately states: East is East "and West is San Francisco." More than Los Angeles, San Francisco is the epitome of the West Coast, as the city seems to encourage people to "do their own thing.