Tag: Bay

Free Download David Weintraub, "Afoot and Afield: San Francisco Bay Area: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide"
English | 2004 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 0899972918 | EPUB | 50,3 mb
This title in the acclaimed Afoot & Afield series contains more than 100 carefully described trips in the nine-county region. Included are all the well-known favorites: Mt. Tamalpais, Point Reyes National Seashore, Henry W. Coe and Mt. Diablo state parks, and Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve. The book also features more remote parks and preserves, from the rugged Sonoma coast to hidden canyons south of San Jose, as well as regional open spaces and country parks from the East Bay hills to the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Free Download Rock climbing the San Francisco Bay area By Black, Tresa
2014 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 0762786671 | EPUB | 41 MB
The San Francisco Bay Area abounds with superb rock climbing, including hidden gems far from the crowds. From the Vaqueros honeycombed sandstone of Castle Rock State Park to the Franciscan blue schist of Dry Creek Sea Crag, hard serpentine at Mount Tamalpais to the sparkling granite settled at the edge of the Consumnes River, Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area covers the best climbing routes in the area. With detailed descriptions of routes ranging from popular to obscure, this fully updated guidebook describes hundreds of new routes and includes full color maps, photos, and topos, making it an indispensable resource for local and visiting climbers alike.

Free Download Stephen Royle, "Company, Crown and Colony: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Territorial Endeavour in Western Canada"
English | 2010 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 1848851324, 1350165646 | PDF | 53,6 mb
The Hudson’s Bay Company was one of the great merchant companies. Granted sole trading rights to a huge part what is now Canada they were coerced in the mid nineteenth century to set up a colonial administration on Vancouver Island to protect British interests at a time of growing expansionism from America to the south and possible threats from a Russian Alaska to the north. ‘Company, Crown and Colony’ tells the story of the challenges they faced. Drawing on rich archival resources the author provides a detailed account of this turbulent period, revealing the difficulties faced by a leading merchant company as they sought to resolve their conflicting interests of commerce and settlement in a complex situation, and providing fresh and lively insights into the emergence of a region of North America that is today one of the principal commercial centres of Canada.

Free Download The Sea Wins: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy
by Eric Allaby
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1774711370 | 272 Pages | True ePUB | 15 MB

Free Download The Summer Girl : An Avalon Bay Novel
by Elle Kennedy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1250863872 | 400 Pages | True ePUB | 0.48 MB

Free Download Sally E. Antrobus, "Galveston Bay (Volume 8) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 158544460X, 1585444618 | PDF | pages: 170 | 6.7 mb
Galveston Bay is the recreational center of the Texas coast-a fishing, boating, and birdwatching playground for the almost four million people who live on or near it. A shallow estuary of about 350,000 acres, the bay supports a rich assortment of wildlife and a commercial fishery that pulls millions of pounds of crabs, shrimp, and oysters from the water each year. Gateway to the Port of Houston, Galveston Bay is also a major corridor for huge volumes of international shipping and is home to the nation’s largest petrochemical manufacturing complex.

Free Download Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History between the Tides By Matthew Booker
2013 | 294 Pages | ISBN: 0520273206 | PDF | 6 MB
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bayreveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.

Free Download Richard Kirshenbaum, "North Bay Road"
English | ISBN: 1637588623 | 2023 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
After receiving a crumbling Mediterranean mansion, Liz Galin uncovers clues that will solve a century-old murder…and reveal a forbidden love story that mirrors a modern one.

Free Download Jeff Kissell, "Put-In-Bay: The Construction of Perry’s Monument"
English | 2001 | pages: 130 | ISBN: 1531612865, 0738518972 | EPUB | 43,0 mb
We have met the enemy and they are ours. . . . So wrote Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to General William Henry Harrison following his decisive victory over a British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry’s victory served as a catalyst both for this battle and for ending hostilities in the Old Northwest Theater of the War of 1812. Captured here in over 200 vintage images from the Monument archives, is a pictorial and technical record of how a monument befitting this naval victory and the resulting peace became a reality.

Free Download Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCF6DRDP | 2023 | 6 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Olivia Allen-Price
Narrator: Olivia Allen-Price
Curious about the San Francisco Bay Area? With explorations into unique local legends, interesting landmarks, and uncovered histories, Bay Curious is a fun, quirky guide to the secret stories of the Bay Area for visitors, newcomers, and California natives alike. Who was America’s first and only Emperor? Why are there ships buried under the streets of San Francisco? Was the word "hella" really created in the East Bay? Bay Curious brings you the answers to these questions and much more through fun and fascinating deep-dives into hidden gems of Bay Area trivia, history, and culture. Based on the award-winning KQED podcast of the same name, Bay Curious brings a fresh eye to some of its most popular pieces and expands to cover stories unique to this book. With subjects ranging from Marin’s redwood forests to the Winchester Mystery House, from the Black Panther Party’s school program to the invention of the Mai Tai, Bay Curious gives you the entertaining and informative, weird and wonderful true stories of the San Francisco Bay Area.