Art books from Bored Feet Press
San Francisco: Intellect and Passion
Ken Auster
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.
Northern Wind River Range—Hiking Map and Guide
Earthwalk Press
Vast Wind River Range on two maps instead of 32 7.5-minute quads! This 5-color map combines 18 topos covering Elkhart Park north without sacrificing scale. Text includes history and trails.
The High Sierra of California
Poems and Journals by Gary Snyder, Woodcuts by Tom Killion
Working from sketches made on mountaineering trips over a period of thirty years, Tom Killion uses traditional woodcut techniques to create riveting images of the Sierra. Adding poems and excerpts from Snyder's journals, Killion has created a stunning fine art book about the High Sierra.
Walk the Sky
Following the John Muir Trail
Photography by John Dittli, Essays by Mark Schlenz
This gorgeous book is the first color photography book in more than forty years about the renowned John Muir Trail of California's Sierra Nevada. This stunning collection of photographs will inspire all. The essays describe the history of the trail, the surrounding terrain, and more.
Southern Wind River Range—Hiking Map and Guide
Earthwalk Press
Topo map combines 14 topos to cover Wind River Range from Elkhart Park south. Text on history, trails.
Reefs and Rain Forests
The Natural Heritage of Malaysian Borneo
Text and Photographs by Murray S. Kaufman
This gorgeous book presents a graceful and poignant essay about, and spectacular color photographs of, the two most important and endangered ecosystems on Earth.
The Painter Lady
Grace Carpenter Hudson
Searles R. Boynton
This hardbound coffee table style book chronicles the life of Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937), the acclaimed artist famous for her images of the Pomo people.
Wild Birds of California
David Lukas
California is a great place for wild birds and the people who enjoy watching them! Over 600 bird species inhabit, migrate, or visit here. This lavishly photographed volume features usual and unusual birds in their wildland homes throughout California.
The Golden Coast
Landscapes at the Edge of the Continent
Jim Caldwell, Introduction by Roger Mandle, Head of Qatar Museums
This second volume of oil paintings by Bay Area artist Jim Caldwell features 72 new paintings, exquisitely reproduced. The book's first part focuses on the magnificent California oaks, followed by spectacular images of the California coast.
Wagner’s Ring Playing Cards
Ring of the Nibelungen
with 55 color illustrations by Arthur Rackham
Each of the 55 cards in the deck has a full size Rackham illustration of this Wagner work, with captions describing the characters and scene, such as "Siegfried crosses the fire and reaches Brunhilde,"
Circles of Life
Katsina Imagery on Hopi Wicker Basketry
Judith W. Finger and Andrew D. Finger
The Hopi people are well known for their skill and artistry in creating ceramics, jewelry, and most especially, katsina dolls, but this is the first book to detail the basketry art.
Olaf Palm
A Life in Art
Composed, Compiled, and Edited by Irene D. Thomas
This compelling memoir provides a moving introduction to this extraordinarily versatile and prolific artist. Included are numerous examples of his exquisite paintings of artists, craftspeople and musicians at work; Europe; Western art of cowboys and Indians; and his works of fantasy.
Nutcracker Ballet Playing Cards
Prospero Art
The cards feature evocative portraits of all the major Nutcracker characters: Fritz, Drosselmeyer, the Mouse King, the Snow Queen, the Snow King, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Dew Drop Queen, the Dancing Bear, and the other colorful characters from Tchaikovsky's most memorable ballet.
Treasures from the Kingdom of Fungi
Photographs of Mushrooms and Other Fungi from around the World
Taylor F. Lockwood
This could well be the book that brings mushrooms into the mainstream of nature appreciation. A feast for the eyes and mind, more than 270 spectacular color photos portray an array of mushrooms and other fungi from six continents.
Exploring The Eastern Sierra
California & Nevada
Mark A. Schlenz, Photography by Dennis Flaherty
The book begins with a geologic and geographic overview of the Sierra, then follows a south-to-north itinerary from Mt. Whitney and Sierra's east slope through Independence, Bishop, Mammoth Lakes, Mono Lake, Lake Tahoe, Virginia City, Death Valley, and Yosemite.
America's Vanishing Landscapes
The Western States
Photography and text by Wayne Williams
Preface by Andy Lipkis, founder of Tree People
Heroic images in vivid color depict some of the greatest of the West's natural landscapes: mountains, rivers, deserts, forests, lakes and coastlines. Williams has spent the last ten years exploring and shooting wilderness landscapes.
Death Valley National Park
A Photographic Journey
Fred and Randi Hirschmann
In this eye-catching book, 106 color photographs celebrate much loved desert scenes as well as newly protected areas in this historic California park, now the largest national park in the United States outside of Alaska.
Mono Lake:
Mirror of Imagination
Dennis Flaherty
Introductory Essay by Mark A. Schlenz
This fine photographic essay portrays in colorful grandeur eastern California 's unique inland sea, now protected as a National Scenic Area, and the gorgeous Sierra landscape that overlooks it.
Mendocino
A Painted Pictorial
Kevin Milligan
This inviting book features over 80 of Kevin Milligan's evocative paintings of Mendocino village. His historical text examines the days as a bustling redwood lumber port, as well the evolution into an artist's community.
Wildflowers of the Plateau and Canyon Country
Photography Larry Ulrich
Interpretive text by Susan Lamb
This photographic essay presents Ulrich's stunning color images of wildflowers in the American Southwest, from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the high mesas of western Colorado.
Grand Teton National Park Photographer's Map & Guide
Earthwalk Press
This great new reference for both digital and film photographers features a shaded relief map of the park, 50 key photo points and 82 color photographs keyed to the map.
Alaska Light
Ideas and Images from a Northern Land
Essays & Photographs by Kim Heacox
Gorgeous book paints a mosaic of Alaska's diverse landscapes and wildlife, from the Arctic Slope to the Inside Passage, from glaciers and grizzlies to sled dogs and caribou herds.
Wildflowers of California
Photography Larry Ulrich
Interpretive text by Susan Lamb
Ulrich presents a gorgeous array of images, from desert to seashore,interior valley to mountain meadow, showing the delicate beauty of Golden State wildflowers in their myriad forms. The interpretive text by Susan Lamb brings us inside the natural world, and gives a lucid and fascinating lesson in botany.
Dassonville
California Photographer (1879-1957)
Peter Palmquist; Researched and edited by Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzmann
This beautiful book is the first about an influential, superb California photographer widely published in his day and the winner of numerous prizes and honors.
Artist‘s Choice
The Photographs of Rod Dresser
Photographs and text by Rod Dresser, Introduction by Dale Stulz
Rod Dresser, one of Ansel Adams’ last students, is acclaimed for the remarkable quality of his prints and for his perceptive and popular workshops. This volume, includes a diverse range of landscape, architectural, still life and figure studies.
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Photography Larry Ulrich
Interpretive text by Susan Lamb
Ulrich presents both the shy and the showy flora of the diverse habitats of Oregon, Washington and western Idaho. Habitats range from coastal rainforest through mountains and river canyons to deserts.
