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Backyard Beekeepers of the Bay Area A love letter to honeybees and beekeeping, this detailed and fascinating, extremely accessible book begins with solitary bees sharing earth with T. rex, then traces their evolution to modern times. Judith Adamson interviews a diverse group of 21 beekeepers from Oakland and San Francisco to Sebastopol.	San Francisco: Intellect and Passion California impressionist painter Ken Auster has created a stunningly fresh and vibrant collection of oil paintings of his favorite city, San Francisco, powerfully conveying the colorful vibrancy of that great city.


Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons Sonora Pass to Pine Creek Discover the hidden beauty of the Eastern Sierra's wondrous canyons with Sierra native Sharon Giacomazzi as your guide. She details local history, campgrounds, resorts, where to find the best wildflower blooms, autumn color displays and waterfalls, and more.	Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons Bishop to Lone Pine This handsome and handy guide covers thirteen dramatic eastside Sierra Canyons. Starting around the spectacular forks of Bishop Canyon, Sharon divulges a wealth of hikes both popular and obscure, then continues south to include hikes near Mount Whitney.


Dark Journey: The Tragedy of the Donner Party This masterful and powerful new account of the infamous Donner Party's odyssey to California is quite possibly the most accurate and detailed telling of this haunting tale. Author Allan Eckert, nominated seven times for the Pulitzer Prize has created this rich retelling of a classic American adventure tale in his fortieth book. Highly recommended!	Angels in the Wilderness Now in paperback Solo backpacker Amy Racina fell sixty feet onto solid granite during a 16-day solo hiking trip. In this gripping account, Amy tells how she survived in the wilderness with both legs broken, her rescue, and her recovery.


Humboldt Rocks: How They Got Here, What They Are, How to Find Them The amazing geology of Humboldt County in clear and informative language. It begins deep in the Gorda Trench, where sulfurous steam vents support giant tube worms, then moves on to describe an earthquake before describing the rocks that underlie all this action.	Yosemite Epics: Tales of Adventure from America’s Greatest Playground Well known Sierra adventurers share some of the most exciting and scariest true stories from their escapades in the Range of Light. These tales keep readers on the edge of their seats with true narratives from rock, snow, ice, and whitewater.


An Everyday History of Somewhere Ray Raphael’s classic award-winning people's history of California’s north coast is an evocative blend of oral history and narrative. As the subtitle says “Being the true story of Indians, deer, homesteaders, potatoes, loggers, trees, fishermen, salmon, and other living things in the back woods of Northern California.”	Two Peoples, One Place In this fascinating account of Humboldt history by two acclaimed and accomplished authors, the reader views what happened when Euro-Americans and Native Americans competed for a place they both relished. This book details Humboldt's native peoples and their contact with the newcomers.


Notebooks From the Emerald Triangle Notes of a Renegade Gardener in the Far Hills Bill Bradd tells the inside story of the outlaw culture of outdoor marijuana cultivation.	California Road Trip A Climber's Guide Northern California This hefty road reference for climbers is an ideal guidebook for any climber traveling in Northern California. Coverage ranges from Lone Pine in the southern Sierra to Big Sur in the SW to Lassen National Park in the NE to Redwood National Park in the NW.

At Bored Feet, the fantastic diversity of quality products from small independent presses continues to amaze us. This season finds us with a cornucopia of great new titles. Here's a sampling:

We’re now carrying the excellent Bluewater satellite-image Maps, one of the most exciting new maps lines we’ve ever sold. Bluewater newest line has great maps of Coastal California, and they also produce six great satellite-image maps of other western regions. And don't miss our other map lines:
- Redwood Hikes Press: exquisitely detailed maps of Redwood National and State Parks, Muir Woods, Big Basin, and other great Redwood parks.
- Tom Harrison Maps: famously accurate trail & recreation maps for California, including the Sierra Nevada and southern California.
- Earthwalk Press Maps: recreation maps for select western parks, travel destinations, & wilderness areas.
- Pease Press Maps: Recreation Maps of the greater San Francisco Bay area.
- Imus Geographics Maps: state maps for Alaska & Oregon, plus topographic recreation maps for the Sierra Nevada & Chugach State Park (Alaska)
Walk the Sky, a gorgeous new photo book about the John Muir Trail of California's Sierra Nevada, is available now, and don't miss the other beautiful photo books from Companion Press
Nutcracker Ballet Playing Cards. And don't forget Prospero Art's other playing card sets: Shakespeare Playing Cards: A quote from the Bard on every card! Plus Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards
If you have children, check out Etan Boritzer's What is... series. These books will help children come to terms with the difficult questions of life, love, god, beauty, money, and more, including the brand new What Is True?
A must-have for naturalists or other curious people who visit California's Sierra Nevada mountains: Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada. This guide covers plants, mammals, insects, spiders, and more... even plant galls.
We have two more brand new titles about the Sierra Nevada: The High Sierra of California features stunning woodcuts by Tom Killion plus poems and journal entries by Gary Snyder. Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide exhaustively covers—you guessed it— the birds of the Sierra.
The Third Edition of The Hiker's hip pocket Guide to Sonoma County is shipping!
You probably thought you'd never find a fascinating book about pomegranates, but here it is.
We are proud of our Sierra author, Sharon Giacomazzi’s, three books:Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons; Sonora Pass to Pine Creek, Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons; Bishop to Lone Pine, and the classic Trails and Tales of Yosemite and the Central Sierra.

Some other recent additions to Bored Feet’s Library:

Bored Feet is proud to present three excellent children’s story books about the early settlers of the American West, The Balloon Boy of San Francisco and Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl, both by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, and Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party, a classic of western history for children by Rachel Laurgaard. All three books feature excellent and compelling storytelling, plus a strong and accurate historical perspective on their times and settings.
In a different, spiritually focused vein, Thaïs Mazur's compelling book, Warrior Mothers, documents 24 inspiring mothers and their actions to create a better world.

In our abundant Outdoor Recreation line, we're proud to distribute Maximus Press, publishers of definitive climbing guides for California rock. Inside you'll find all their information- and image-rich guides, so far we have six covering the Sierra Nevada- the Bishop/Lone Pine area, the Mammoth area, the Big Chief area near Tahoe, the Owens River Gorge area, the forty top High Sierra climbs, and the brand new California Road Trip , which covers the entire north half of this glorious state -plus one for the Santa Monica Mountains , with more to come.

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Who We Are (In Case You Didn't Know)

Bored Feet Press, a small publisher founded in 1986, is proud to celebrate our 24th year of providing great and accurate books and maps. We now publishes twelve highly regarded guidebooks to California and four fine poetry titles. Since 1995 we’ve also been a distributor for carefully selected micro-publishers. Today we bring you the best in quality books and maps produced by more than 65 small publishers.

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