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Title: San Francisco by Morton Beebe, Christina Burns ISBN: 3-8238-4558-6 Publisher: Teneues Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "A mad city inhabited by perfectly insane people."
Comment: Bring together an elegant top-quality publishing company, a gifted photographer, superb essayists and you have all the makings for a good book. Let the subject be San Francisco, though, and you have a great book.
This is the 3rd edition of this best seller with 218 full color images by Morton Beebe as well as essays by Herb Caen, Tom Cole, Barnaby Conrad, Herbert Gold, John Hart, Allen Pastron, Miguel Pendás, and Kevin Starr. Together, they provide an intimate portrayal of the City by the Bay. This stunning collection of photographs captures the contrasts, the energy, and the vitality of San Francisco. As do the essays.
Tom Cole takes us back to the beginning and provides an historical review of the raucous town that suddenly grew up overnight in its feverish bid for gold. Barnaby Conrad leads us into the night with anecdotes witty, clever, and sensuous from an eclectic mix including, to name just a few, Graham Green, Frank Sinatra, and Eva Gabor.
"Bahnaby tells me you haf a vooden leg, vitch vun iz it?"
"Eva, I never thought I'd have to tell a Gabor what a man's leg feels like."
"Vell, dahling, ve vass never in zee lumber business!"
In a final essay, Allen Pastron walks us through much of the city beneath our feet. Here, we discover the world's finest anchorage being dug up and, therein, its archaeological heritage. Penned a "worm's-eye-view," the essay provides some wonderful insights into what was once the bawdy Barbary Coast - particularly, the story of the discovery of the buried ship General Harrison.
Rudyard Kipling opined San Francisco was "a mad city inhabited by perfectly insane people." So it lives on! Multi-faceted lifestyles unfold with each page, the images capturing the curious joie de vivre that reigns over The City. Other pictures highlight the unmistakable landmarks: the skyline with its Pyramid Building, the Golden Gate, and my favorite, the Palace of Fine Arts in the gentle light of dusk below a full moon glowing. The photos speak volumes in this book. Each offers a glimpse as to why the city Herbert Gold called "America's last great metropolitan village" has won the most coveted travel destination award in the world - now ten years in a row - the Condé Nast Traveler's annual Readers' Choice Awards.
San Francisco, City by the Bay, was first published in 1985. This edition features ninety new images and three new essays. The publisher, Abrams, boasts that Beebe's book is their longest running best seller. Not surprisingly. It is said that San Francisco is a city full of people that want to be here. Morton Beebe, a 3rd generation San Franciscan, reminds us of why this is so.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Truly Wonderful Journey Through San Francisco
Comment: Beebe's images have truly captured the many diverse flavors and charms that make San Francisco the unique city that it is. Combined with the entertaining and informative essays, the beatifully printed images in this book bring a reader as close as one can come to walking through the streets of San Francisco itself. I throughly enjoyed this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Absolutely gorgeous pictures, great for San Francisco lovers. New edition has several new pictures and essays. It serves as a great gift if you are visiting someone and want to show off the city you live in
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Title: San Francisco on My Mind ISBN: 0762725192 Publisher: Globe Pequot Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: San Francisco Then & Now (Then & Now (Thunder Bay Press)) by Bill Yenne, Thunder Bay Press ISBN: 1571451560 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: San Francisco: The City's Sights and Secrets by Leah Garchik ISBN: 081180917X Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Above San Francisco: A New Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs by Robert Cameron, Arthur Hoppe, Arthur Watterson Hoppe ISBN: 0918684730 Publisher: Cameron & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.50 |
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Title: Vintage San Francisco by Peter Beren, Gabriel Moulin, Raymond Moulin, Thomas Moulin, Gabriel Moulin Studios ISBN: 0941807312 Publisher: Welcome Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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