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| San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary | 
| Author: John Hart
Creator: David Sanger
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 382155
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 206
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0520233999
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.4600222
EAN: 9780520233997
ASIN: 0520233999
Publication Date: October 10, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: note - Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear/edgewear and some tearing to the dust jacket - small black remainder mark to one edge - still NICE!
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Product Description
With its shimmering vistas of fog, light, and cityscape, San Francisco Bay is famous worldwide--yet very little known. The bay, together with its inland delta, is one of the largest estuaries in the Americas. It is a crucial bird habitat, a vital fishery, a major shipping center, a source of precious water, a playground for its cities, a natural treasure in trouble, and a stirring challenge to our human stewardship.
John Hart's lyrical writing and David Sanger's eye-opening color photographs reveal this marvel hidden in plain sight--its varied past, its complicated present, and its promising future.
Hart and Sanger journey back through the bay's history, introducing its native cultures, describing its ecology, and tracing its urban and industrial development. They take us with them on a tanker bound upriver, to a duck hunter's blind at dawn, to a delta island when the migratory sandhill cranes come in, to the strange white fields where salt is harvested. And they tell the story of how the plucky local movement to save the bay began and evolved into a grand effort--maybe the grandest yet attempted--to repair a damaged organ of the living world.
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the Audubon Society, of The Bay Institute of San Francisco, and of the Director's Circle of the Associates of theUniversity of California Press in support of this publication.
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The Bay I thought I knew... October 2, 2003
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a fan of David Sanger's photography. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Sanger and Hart were able to show me parts of the area I've lived in for 20+ years that I did not know existed. While San Francisco Bay is an exceedingly urban area, it also abounds in wilderness and wildlife. I was particularly taken with the descriptions of several ways of daily life in and on the bay.The tone of the book is factual without being dry. John Hart's writing style felt like a wonderful conversation with someone I've known a long time. I learned a great deal about how the bay is changing and why those changes are occuring. There are several very detailed maps of the bay that correspond to the areas discussed and I referred to them often. The photographs are exquisite. The bay is always beautiful in those golden hours before sunrise and sunset and David Sanger must have spent a great deal of time to capture so many evocative images. After reading through the book and spending time with the images, I felt like I wanted to participate in the restoration of this unique area. The appendicies are helpful, offering a list of 20 places to visit and a comprehensive list of agencies and organizations that are central in the preservation and restoration of the bay. All in all, a very satisfying book.
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