Books

How to Catch Bottomfish

In a region where salmon fishing has always won top billing, anglers have often ignored the bottomfish. Yet its ready availability in the waters of Alaska, British Columbia and Washington and its merit as a fabulous table fish suggest that it is time to...

Salty Dog

Salty grows up in a boat shop as his owner builds a sailboat for a circumnavigation. He befriends all who meet him, including the crew of a ferryboat before setting off on the big cruise.

Build the Instant Catboat

How to build this nifty Phil Bolger designed tack and tape plywood version of the famous Beetle Cat.

The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas

An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down California’s shorelineCalifornia’s coastline is world famous, an endless source of fascination and fantasy, but there is no book about it like this one. Obi Kaufmann, author-illustrator ofThe...

Essential Muir (Revised): A Selection of John Muir’s Best (and Worst) Writings

A new edition of Muir’s writings that places his environmentalist ideals alongside his damaging prejudicesEssayist. Preservationist. Mountain man. Inventor. John Muir may be California’s best-known icon. A literary naturalist and founder of the...

The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource

Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-sellingCalifornia Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of...

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area

Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco–Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose...

The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds

John Muir Laws’s guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves. Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine,...

The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journaling

Your ideal companion for observing and exploring the natural worldDesigned to the last detail by the “modern Audubon” John (Jack) Muir Laws,The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journalingis the perfect starting point for anyone interested in the practice...

The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling

The ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling! A potent combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, the latest art instruction book from John Muir Laws (The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds) is a how-to guide for becoming a better artist and...

When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California

Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco...

The California Field Atlas

#1San Francisco ChronicleBest Seller#10 SCIBA Best SellerWinner the 2018 NCIBA Book of the Year Award (Regional Interest). This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its...