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Bored Feet? Let's go hiking...
...in Mendocino County
...in Sonoma County
...in Humboldt County
...in the Sierra Nevada
...along the California Coast
...throughout California & the West
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:
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
- 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.
- 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
- The Third Edition of The Hiker's hip pocket Guide to Sonoma County is shipping!
- Must-haves for literature fans: Shakespeare Playing Cards: A quote from the Bard on every card! Plus Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards
- If you’re a big fan of George W. Bush, you may want to avoid Pat Bagley’s Clueless George books. The rest of us will find them hilarious.
- Speaking of G.W. Bush and his critics, we also have a new biography of filmmaker Michael Moore, titled Citizen Moore
- You probably thought you'd never find a fascinating book about pomegranites, but here it is.
- We are now carrying an especially beautiful series of maps from Imus Geographics. They feature giant maps of the Sierra Nevada, Oregon, Alaska, and the Chugach State Park
- Prospect Park Books has a delightful series of new books about southern California places and lifestyles:Hometown Pasadena, The Insider's Guide, Hometown Santa Monica, and now At Home Pasadena
- Photographer Tim Hauf is back with a new book of stunning pictures from the Himalaya. This one is called Kangchenjunga, Guardian of the Eastern Himalaya
- Amy Racina’s new Angels in the Wilderness: The True Story of One Woman’s Survival Against All Odds tells the story of her harrowing adventure in the Sierra Nevada. Outdoor lovers should read this suspenseful and ultimately inspiring story.
- We are extremely proud of Sharon Giacomazzi’s new book, Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons Now’s the time to start planning next Summer’s adventures in the high Sierra! Plus, the ten canyons open in winter list winter sports activity.
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.
- Mapaholics cannot live for another week without a copy of Rich Owings’ brand new GPS Mapping. Learn how to make your own maps using free USGS maps and the global positioning system.
- In the realm of fantastic nature, Lalo Fiorelli's striking new Hidden Splendors of the Yucatan reveals mindbending images and great stories of the fantastic underwater caves explored there in recent years. We also have obtained a stock of Fiorelli's Wild Splendors of California, with stunning photos from all over the state.
- Olaf Palm: A Life in Art is a fascinating biography of this richly talented artist with scores of diverse examples of Palm’s wonderful paintings.
- In a different, also spiritually focused vein, Thaïs Mazur's compelling book, Warrior Mothers, documents 24 inspiring mothers and their actions to create a better world.
- Bored Feet is proud to announce that we now distribute the wonderful maps to California hiking and recreation areas created by renowned mapmaker Tom Harrison, Franko's Maps—featuring Hawaian and Southern Californian land and water recreation spots, and tide charts to northern California, southern California, Washington, and Hawaii from the Hawaiian Resources Company.
In our Outdoor Recreation line, we're proud to welcome Maximus Press, publishers of definitive climbing guides for California rock. Inside you'll find all their information- and image-rich guides, four covering the Sierra Nevada—the Mammoth area, the Big Chief area, the Owens River Gorge area, and the forty top High Sierra climbs—plus one for the Santa Monica Mountains, with more to come.
In other news, we've lowered prices on our two favorite poetry titles and two fine art photography books:
And don‘t foget the books that made Bored Feet famous:
- The Hiker‘s hip pocket Guides
- Hiking the California Coastal Trail
- The Mendocino Coast Glove Box Guide
Who We Are (In Case You Didn't Know)
Bored Feet Press, a small publisher founded in 1986, is proud to celebrate our 20th 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 50 small publishers.
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