Heyday Books
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The Once and Future Forest: California’s Iconic Redwoods
$26.00 Add to cartFive writers capture the majesty and grandeur of California’s famed redwoods
Originally published in celebration of Save the Redwoods League’s 100th anniversary, and here newly adapted for a trade au- Author: Save the Redwoods League
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145564
- Language: English
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Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors…finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie kni… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1597144991
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$16.00 Add to cartMy First Summer in the Sierra presents Muir’s journal entries from his first long-term adventure in Yosemite and the surrounding area, when he helped drive a flock of sheep through the foothills towar… [more below]
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597143391
- Language: English
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Spiders in Your Neighborhood: A Field Guide to Your Local Spider Friends, Revised and Expanded
$15.00 Add to cartA fun, friendly, all-ages field guide to common Western spiders
Spiders! Scary? Maybe. Cool? Definitely. Author Pat Stadille used to be terribly afraid of these eight-legged daddies, until he started- Author: Stadille, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145777
- Language: English
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Grave Matters: The Controversy Over Excavating California’s Buried Indigenous Past
$24.00 Add to cartHow do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them?
Whether by curious Boy Scouts and “backyard archaeologists” or competitive collectors and knowledge-hungry- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145599
- Language: English
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King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
$27.00 Add to cartFrom a towering tree, one of California’s preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of the Bi… [more below]
- Author: Tweed, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143510
- Language: English
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Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
$26.00 Add to cartAn essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years.
Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California,
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145661
- Language: English
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The High Sierra of California
$35.00 Add to cartThe High Sierra of California is a brilliant tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers. Using traditional Japanese and European woodcut tech… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1890771996
- Language: English
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A Short History of San Francisco
$20.00 Add to cartThis is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1597142735
- Language: English
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Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
$30.00 Add to cartIn the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operation… [more below]
- Author: Healy, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143707
- Language: English
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Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
$30.00 Add to cartThis volume explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. In less than t… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1597143847
- Language: English
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Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times
$25.00 Add to cartMarooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard.
“Stranded reminds us of what we all too easily forget: the sus
- Author: Bearzi, Maddalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146048
- Language: English
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Wild Sonoma: Exploring Nature in Wine Country
$28.00 Add to cartAn all-access guide to the abundant natural splendor of Sonoma County.
Wild Sonoma celebrates the spectacular and resilient natural landscapes of Sonoma County, which along with its neighboring countie… [more below]
- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145890
- Language: English
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Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues
$24.00 Add to cartThe Sierra Nevada, with its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the bes… [more below]
- Author: Noy, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1597142654
- Language: English
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Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors
$25.00 Add to cartA gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland.
For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris–whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdric… [more below]
- Author: Sarris, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 159714567X
- Language: English
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How a Mountain Was Made: Stories
$25.00 Add to cartNow available in paperback In the tradition of Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mounta… [more below]
- Author: Sarris, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1597144738
- Language: English
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Nocturnalia: Nature in the Western Night
$25.00 Add to cartDon’t be afraid of the dark: grab a flashlight and rediscover your sense of adventure!
Darkness is something humans strive to keep at bay, but under the glow of twilight a nocturnal universe stirs to l
- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1597146242
- Language: English
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Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada
$28.00 Add to cartDelight in the Sierra Nevada’s diverse avifauna with this long-awaited field guide.
Identify and learn about over two hundred and fifty birds of the Sierra Nevada. From tiniest hummingbirds to condors
- Author: Hansen, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145335
- Language: English
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The California Field Atlas: Deluxe Edition
$65.00 Add to cartA new classic gets the deluxe treatment!
Following the success of Obi Kaufmann’s bestselling The California Field Atlas, this Deluxe Edition features a larger format showcasing Kaufmann’s sumptuous wat
- Author: Kaufmann, Obi
- Binding:
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1597145238
- Language: English
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The Harvest Gypsies
$14.00 Add to cartSelected by NYU as one of the century’s best books of American journalism.
Gathered in this volume are seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 for The San Francisco News about the pl
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1890771619
- Language: English
