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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew BookerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520355569ISBN 10: 0520355563 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 09 June 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Between the Tides: Layers of History in San Francisco Bay 1. Rising Tide 2. Ghost Tidelands 3. Reclaiming the Delta 4. An Edible Bay 5. From Real Estate to Refuge Conclusion: Rising Tides? Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsDown by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing. * Boom * ...explores an impressive range of topics. * American Historical Review * ...well written and filled with intriguing historical details that enliven the text. * Biological Conservation * Down by the Bay is an intriguing, highly readable account of the neglected history of San Francisco Bay's tidelands. * Enviromental History * The history of San Francisco is not only the story of a great world city, it's also the story of a great body of water that both supported and was impacted by rapid urban growth. In his natural (and human) history of San Francisco Bay, author Matthew Morse Booker focuses on waterfront and tidal wetlands. It is there that decades of human activity, such as dredging and upriver hydraulic mining, have reshaped, polluted and irrevocably altered the marine environment. * Sacramento Bee * Booker gives the city a fresh face; the familiar becomes strange and wonderful. . . . Down by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing. * San Francisco Chronicle * """Booker gives the city a fresh face; the familiar becomes strange and wonderful. . . . Down by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing."" * San Francisco Chronicle * ""The history of San Francisco is not only the story of a great world city, it's also the story of a great body of water that both supported and was impacted by rapid urban growth. In his natural (and human) history of San Francisco Bay, author Matthew Morse Booker focuses on waterfront and tidal wetlands. It is there that decades of human activity, such as dredging and upriver hydraulic mining, have reshaped, polluted and irrevocably altered the marine environment."" * Sacramento Bee * ""Down by the Bay is an intriguing, highly readable account of the neglected history of San Francisco Bay’s tidelands."" * Enviromental History * ""...well written and filled with intriguing historical details that enliven the text."" * Biological Conservation * ""...explores an impressive range of topics."" * American Historical Review * “Down by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing."" * Boom *" Author InformationMatthew Morse Booker is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford and leads the Between the Tides project at Stanford’s Spatial History Lab, mapping San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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