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- Book Title
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Heyday
ISBN-10
1597145513
ISBN-13
9781597145510
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050414450
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Coasts of California : a California Field Atlas
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Earth Sciences / Geography, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (See Also Travel / Maps & Road Atlases), Nature, Art, Reference, Science
Type
Map
Series
The California Lands Trilogy Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
38.8 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2021-032867
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"Much more than a survey of tourist spots, Coasts is a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline. Everyone in the state should have this gorgeous book on their bookshelf." -- Liam Mayclem , CBS San Francisco "Kaufmann's gaze easily ranges from the micro to the macro, skipping from phytoplankton to blue whales, and rising from the 2-mile depths of Monterey Canyon to mile-high coastal peaks where California condors glide along the thermals. [...] As a reader you are invited to join him on a journey of discovery -- not as a passenger but as an active partner." -- Matt Jaffe , SF Chronicle "Kaufmann spent a year, seven days a week, delving into and recording what's on the coastline, in complex and dynamic detail, to produce a substantive, colorfully interpretive, frequently poetic 'atlas.' [...] The natural world of California's coasts is surprising in its depth and complexity. And as captured by a diligent and experienced observer, unbelievably beautiful as well." -- Stephen Nett , The Press Democrat "The Coasts of California is a paean to the beauty and diversity of the littoral, unfolding in evocative essays and lovingly-rendered watercolors of the flora and fauna that live at the edges of the land." -- Alisa Carroll , HENRY magazine " The Coasts of California: A California Field Atla s is a great addition to a collection of field guides or atlases that are also art books--this one has over 400 of the author's signature watercolors and maps. While providing precious information on trails, the shifting of rocks, sand and special habitats, Kaufmann's books can also be described as philosophical meditations written with surprisingly poetic prose." -- Agata Popeda , Monterey County Weekly "Obi wants to inspire us to be optimistic, not fatalistic about the world we find ourselves in. Stories of recovery are all around us if we open our eyes. He believes we can, indeed, reverse course and save what we have inherited." -- Dan Sealy , EcoNews, "Kaufmann's gaze easily ranges from the micro to the macro, skipping from phytoplankton to blue whales, and rising from the 2-mile depths of Monterey Canyon to mile-high coastal peaks where California condors glide along the thermals. [...] As a reader you are invited to join him on a journey of discovery -- not as a passenger but as an active partner." -- Matt Jaffe , SF Chronicle "Kaufmann spent a year, seven days a week, delving into and recording what's on the coastline, in complex and dynamic detail, to produce a substantive, colorfully interpretive, frequently poetic 'atlas.' [...] The natural world of California's coasts is surprising in its depth and complexity. And as captured by a diligent and experienced observer, unbelievably beautiful as well." -- Stephen Nett , The Press Democrat, "I think it is safe to say that when one pores over the nearly 650-page Coasts of California-- filled with vivid watercolor illustrations of flora and fauna and exquisite vistas and scenes, in addition to hand-colored maps of everything from coastal wildflower blooms to amphibian habitats to oceanic chlorophyll concentrations combined with painstakingly researched facts and histories--Kaufmann's knowledge of and respect for these myriad forms of life cannot help but spark one's own spirit of inquiry and adventure."-- Red Canary " The Coasts of California by Obi Kaufmann is an amazing achievement in both art and science. It is brimming with expressive yet accurate watercolors of animals, maps, landscapes, and concepts, annotated by elegant calligraphy and typography."-- Pacific Horticulture "Much more than a survey of tourist spots Coasts is a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline. Everyone in the state should have this gorgeous book on their bookshelf."-- CBS San Francisco "Kaufmann's gaze easily ranges from the micro to the macro, skipping from phytoplankton to blue whales, and rising from the 2-mile depths of Monterey Canyon to mile-high coastal peaks where California condors glide along the thermals. [...] As a reader you are invited to join him on a journey of discovery--not as a passenger but as an active partner."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Much of the writing on beaches and coasts betrays an Atlantic bias, which is part of what makes Obi Kaufmann's The Coasts of California , the fourth installment in his California Field Atlas series, an original contribution to the genre. In 639 pages, Kaufmann, a naturalist, writer, and illustrator, tackles the geography and ecology of California's 840-mile-long Pacific coastline in immersive detail."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Kaufmann spent a year, seven days a week, delving into and recording what's on the coastline, in complex and dynamic detail, to produce a substantive, colorfully interpretive, frequently poetic 'atlas.' [...] The natural world of California's coasts is surprising in its depth and complexity. And as captured by a diligent and experienced observer, unbelievably beautiful as well."-- The Press Democrat "The Coasts of California is a paean to the beauty and diversity of the littoral, unfolding in evocative essays and lovingly-rendered watercolors of the flora and fauna that live at the edges of the land."-- Alisa Carroll, HENRY magazine " The Coasts of California is a great addition to a collection of field guides or atlases that are also art books--this one has over 400 of the author's signature watercolors and maps. While providing precious information on trails, the shifting of rocks, sand and special habitats, Kaufmann's books can also be described as philosophical meditations written with surprisingly poetic prose."-- Monterey County Weekly "Obi wants to inspire us to be optimistic, not fatalistic about the world we find ourselves in. Stories of recovery are all around us if we open our eyes. He believes we can, indeed, reverse course and save what we have inherited."-- EcoNews, "I think it is safe to say that when one pores over the nearly 650-page Coasts of California-- filled with vivid watercolor illustrations of flora and fauna and exquisite vistas and scenes, in addition to hand-colored maps of everything from coastal wildflower blooms to amphibian habitats to oceanic chlorophyll concentrations combined with painstakingly researched facts and histories--Kaufmann's knowledge of and respect for these myriad forms of life cannot help but spark one's own spirit of inquiry and adventure."-- Red Canary " The Coasts of California by Obi Kaufmann is an amazing achievement in both art and science. It is brimming with expressive yet accurate watercolors of animals, maps, landscapes, and concepts, annotated by elegant calligraphy and typography."-- Pacific Horticulture "Much more than a survey of tourist spots Coasts is a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline. Everyone in the state should have this gorgeous book on their bookshelf."-- CBS San Francisco "Kaufmann's gaze easily ranges from the micro to the macro, skipping from phytoplankton to blue whales, and rising from the 2-mile depths of Monterey Canyon to mile-high coastal peaks where California condors glide along the thermals. [...] As a reader you are invited to join him on a journey of discovery--not as a passenger but as an active partner."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Much of the writing on beaches and coasts betrays an Atlantic bias, which is part of what makes Obi Kaufmann's The Coasts of California , the fourth installment in his California Field Atlas series, an original contribution to the genre. In 639 pages, Kaufmann, a naturalist, writer, and illustrator, tackles the geography and ecology of California's 840-mile-long Pacific coastline in immersive detail."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Kaufmann spent a year, seven days a week, delving into and recording what's on the coastline, in complex and dynamic detail, to produce a substantive, colorfully interpretive, frequently poetic 'atlas.' [...] The natural world of California's coasts is surprising in its depth and complexity. And as captured by a diligent and experienced observer, unbelievably beautiful as well."-- The Press Democrat "In words and charts, in watercolors and maps, this field atlas takes the reader on a tour from the microscopic plankton that create the richness of the California Current just offshore, to the large-scale ocean weather patterns that carry storms and create the coast's temperate Mediterranean climate. The book is an exploration of the varied, three-dimensional, and inseparable forces that make this coast what it is today, and could shape its future." -- Cameron Walker, Terrain "The Coasts of California is a paean to the beauty and diversity of the littoral, unfolding in evocative essays and lovingly-rendered watercolors of the flora and fauna that live at the edges of the land."-- Alisa Carroll, HENRY magazine " The Coasts of California is a great addition to a collection of field guides or atlases that are also art books--this one has over 400 of the author's signature watercolors and maps. While providing precious information on trails, the shifting of rocks, sand and special habitats, Kaufmann's books can also be described as philosophical meditations written with surprisingly poetic prose."-- Monterey County Weekly "Obi wants to inspire us to be optimistic, not fatalistic about the world we find ourselves in. Stories of recovery are all around us if we open our eyes. He believes we can, indeed, reverse course and save what we have inherited."-- EcoNews, "I think it is safe to say that when one pores over the nearly 650-page Coasts of California-- filled with vivid watercolor illustrations of flora and fauna and exquisite vistas and scenes, in addition to hand-colored maps of everything from coastal wildflower blooms to amphibian habitats to oceanic chlorophyll concentrations combined with painstakingly researched facts and histories--Kaufmann's knowledge of and respect for these myriad forms of life cannot help but spark one's own spirit of inquiry and adventure."-- Steffie Nelson , Red Canary " The Coasts of California by Obi Kaufmann is an amazing achievement in both art and science. It is brimming with expressive yet accurate watercolors of animals, maps, landscapes, and concepts, annotated by elegant calligraphy and typography."-- Steven Haddock , Pacific Horticulture "Much more than a survey of tourist spots, Coasts is a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline. Everyone in the state should have this gorgeous book on their bookshelf." -- Liam Mayclem , CBS San Francisco "Kaufmann's gaze easily ranges from the micro to the macro, skipping from phytoplankton to blue whales, and rising from the 2-mile depths of Monterey Canyon to mile-high coastal peaks where California condors glide along the thermals. [...] As a reader you are invited to join him on a journey of discovery -- not as a passenger but as an active partner." -- Matt Jaffe , SF Chronicle "Kaufmann spent a year, seven days a week, delving into and recording what's on the coastline, in complex and dynamic detail, to produce a substantive, colorfully interpretive, frequently poetic 'atlas.' [...] The natural world of California's coasts is surprising in its depth and complexity. And as captured by a diligent and experienced observer, unbelievably beautiful as well." -- Stephen Nett , The Press Democrat "The Coasts of California is a paean to the beauty and diversity of the littoral, unfolding in evocative essays and lovingly-rendered watercolors of the flora and fauna that live at the edges of the land." -- Alisa Carroll , HENRY magazine " The Coasts of California: A California Field Atla s is a great addition to a collection of field guides or atlases that are also art books--this one has over 400 of the author's signature watercolors and maps. While providing precious information on trails, the shifting of rocks, sand and special habitats, Kaufmann's books can also be described as philosophical meditations written with surprisingly poetic prose." -- Agata Popeda , Monterey County Weekly "Obi wants to inspire us to be optimistic, not fatalistic about the world we find ourselves in. Stories of recovery are all around us if we open our eyes. He believes we can, indeed, reverse course and save what we have inherited." -- Dan Sealy , EcoNews
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
2
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
912.1916432
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Introduction Keys and measures 01. Symmetry and Succession: Perspectives on time and ecology 02. Fault-Line Symphony: The geomorphology of coastal California 03. Elemental Rhythms: Energy, weather, and the cycles of wind and wave 04. Sand and Rivers: Littoral patterns and estuary types 05. As Above, So Below: A survey of coastal habitat types 06. All Creatures Great and Small: Coastal biodiversity 07. A Good, Long Walk: The California Coastal Trail 08. Each a Character: The islands of California 09. Policies and Protections: Stewardship of the land and sea 10. Navigating a Chaotic Sea: Modeling hope and peril Acknowledgements Glossary Notes Selected Bibliography About the Author
Synopsis
A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller! An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down California's shoreline. California'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 of The California Field Atlas and The Forests of California , now turns his attention to the 1,200 miles of the Golden State where the land meets the ocean. Bursting with color, The Coasts of California is in Kaufmann's signature style, fusing science with art and pure poetic reverie. And much more than a survey of tourist spots, Coasts is a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline. With hundreds of gorgeous watercolor maps and illustrations, Kaufmann explores the rhythms of the tides, the lives of sea creatures, the shifting of rocks and sand, and the special habitats found on California's islands. At the book's core is an expansive, detailed walk down the California Coastal Trail, including maps of parks along the way--a wealth of knowledge for any coast-lover. The Coasts of California is a geographic epic, an odyssey in nature, a grand and glorious book for a grand and glorious part of the world.
LC Classification Number
G1527.C6G4K38 2022
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- e***_ (13)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSeller handles a massive inventory so I give them grace on the slow processing and shipping. They were very communicative and prompt with their response when I messaged in asking about it. Book was in good condition as described. Small ding on the page edges which wasn't mentioned, but that's fairly common even at your typical book store. Still a good value and I'd buy from them again.
- 0***i (5)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe first item arrived with some damage to the inside back cover, but the seller responded immediately, assuring me they’d provide a replacement, and even told me I could keep the original. They were upfront about a short delay, and gave a clear estimated ship date, and followed up right on time once it shipped. The replacement arrived in perfect condition and exactly as described. I really appreciated their transparency and professionalism. Would definitely buy from them again!