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San Francisco Secrets: Fanscinating Facts about the City by the Bay 6 reviews
John Snyder
Chronicle Books, 1999
A little history about my home town -- 20 years later
+ Not so secret
+ Locating Photo Sites
+ A Love Only for The Bay ...
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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks 16 reviews
James R. Smith
Word Dancer Press, 2004
History at its best
+ Just a treat
+ Land Of the Lost
+ Fun, fascinating history about The City By the Bay
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San Francisco & Northern California (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)19 reviews
Annelise Sorensen
DK Travel, 2006
Great San Francisco guidebook!
+ San Francisco and Northern California
+ San Francisco first timers
+ San Francisco (and more) at your fingertips
+ This is a great book! Well, I liked it
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Lonely Planet San Francisco (City Guide) 20 reviews
Alison Bing, Dominique Channell
Lonely Planet, 2008
Very compact but excellent travel companion
+ Opinions to the left and maps not quite right
I bought this book before a trip to SF. The book has everything you need. It lists all places to eat/sleep/visit and everything I tried was in agreement with what the book said. The walking tours are valuable and it contains extra stuff for outside SF which got extremely neat when I drove to Muir ...
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The San Francisco Chronicle Cookbook10 reviews
Chronicle Books, 1997
This is THE ONE
+ Simply the Best
+ great cookbook
+ Long timer loves it -
+ Fantasic cookbook
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Streetwise San Francisco Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of San Francisco, California - Folding pocket ...25 reviews
Streetwise Maps
Streetwise Maps, 2009
This is a fantastic map but beware..................
+ Great Map for San Fran Newbie!
+ Works well except print too small
+ Nice sturdy map
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Walking San Francisco: 30 savvy tours exploring the CityAEs distinctive enclaves, colorful history, and back ...7 reviews
Tom Downs
Wilderness Press, 2007
It's a great collection for any walker who would see the City by foot.
+ good book
+ Beats for your feets!
+ Walking is FUN
+ Plan an extra day in SF to enjoy a few walking tours!
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City by the Bay: A Magical Journey Around San Francisco3 reviews
Tricia Brown
Chronicle Books, 1998
. . . A Wonderfully Illustrated Tour of San Francisco
+ Good Service
I purchased this book, a beautifully illustrated treasure, as a souvenir on one of my trips to San Francisco. The illustrations are so incredible--bright, cheerful, detailed and full of life. Each illustration (i.e. Golden Gate Bridge, The Cable Cars and Lombard Street) is accompanied by a brief ...
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This is San Francisco [A Children's Classic]9 reviews
Miroslav Sasek
Universe Publishing, 2003
wonderful kid's book
+ fun book to inspire travel
+ This is San Francisco
+ Beautiful
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The Little Black Book of San Francisco (Travel Guide) (Little Black Books)9 reviews
Marlene Goldman
Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 2007
A must-have for exploring the city!
+ Good, But Maps Could Be Larger
+ Helpful
+ Great little book, plus it's got maps!!
+ Great info, awesome maps
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Savoring San Francisco: Recipes from the City's Neighborhood Restaurants3 reviews
Carolyn Miller, Sharon Smith, ...
Sasquatch Books, 2000
More than just a cookbook
+ right in your own backyard
This book is fabulous. Even for people who don't cook, the book is a great restaurant guide to San Francisco. I love the historical backgrounds of the neighborhoods. Very well written, with a sense of style, opinion, and irreverence. Very SF! I also find the layout, type treatments, and color very ...
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld9 reviews
Herbert Asbury
Basic Books, 2002
The Wild and Woolley and Witty of a Great City...
+ The Barbary Coast
+ SF history as you've never heard it before!
+ Barbary Coast
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Frommer's San Francisco 2010 (Frommer's Complete)
Matthew R. Poole, Erika Lenkert
Frommers, 2009
Frommer's San Francisco 2010 With Foldout Map Our North Beach walking tour will lead you through Jack Kerouac Street and other Beat generation landmarks. See chapter 8. Foldout map, plus detailed maps throughout Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and ...
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Not for Tourists Guide 2009 to San Francisco (Not for Tourists Guidebook) 1 review
Not for Tourists, 2008
Useful but has a Serious Flaw---hard to identify businesses.
The book shows you where certain business establishments occur within the city of San Francisco on a street map. These are grouped into broad categories, such as coffee, nightlife, restaurants, shopping, etc..., and are identified on the map by an icon (for example a cocktail glass for a "night ...
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Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to And Living in the San Francisco Bay Area: Including San Jose, Oakland, ...4 reviews
Sabrina Crawford
First Books Inc, 2006
covers just about every aspect of living in and around San Francisco
+ Can't fault the contents, but didn't meet my expectations
+ San Fransisco, here we come!
+ Accurate and helpful
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San Francisco: The City's Sights and Secrets4 reviews
Leah Garchik
Chronicle Books, 2006
A guide useful both to new visitors and to residents
+ review
+ Fabulous photographs!
+ wonderful photos
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Fodor's San Francisco 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)1 review
Fodor's
Fodor's, 2008
Great Buy
This is an excellent book. It tells you what you need to know.
Enough said, buy it!
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Top 10 San Francisco (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)1 review
Jeffrey Kennedy
DK Publishing, 2008
Great tour book of San Francisco!
I really used this book to psych me up about my trip to San Francisco more than anything. Once I got there, I only had a couple days, and they were already planned for me, so I didn't get to use the book for ideas of places to go. But now I will look through it to reflect on the good memories of my ...
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Above San Francisco9 reviews
Arthur W Hoppe
Cameron & Company, 1998
Astonishing photographs of the Bay Area
+ Captures the beauty of the Bay Area
+ Just a little disappointing for one of America's photogenic cities.
+ Excellent Souvenir for the City by the Bay!
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San Francisco Then & Now (Then & Now)14 reviews
Bill Yenne
Thunder Bay Press, 2002
Welcome to America's Most Conservative City!
+ I left my heart in San Francisco
+ For anyone who has ever left their heart in San Francisco
+ Beautiful
+ Great Book
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