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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew BookerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520273207ISBN 10: 0520273206 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 07 June 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Between the Tides: Layers of History in San Francisco Bay 1. Rising Tide 2. Ghost Tidelands 3. Reclaiming the Delta 4. An Edible Bay 5. From Real Estate to Refuge Conclusion: Rising Tides? Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBooker gives the city a fresh face; the familiar becomes strange and wonderful. . . . Down by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing. --Jonah Raskin San Francisco Chronicle (06/23/2013) Author InformationMatthew Morse Booker is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford and leads the Between the Tides project at Stanford's Spatial History Lab, mapping San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |