Product Description: The Dog Lover’s Companion to California has the inside scoop on the best dog runs, parks, beaches, hiking trails, camping areas, pet-friendly businesses, and much more. Local author Maria Goodavage and her trusty companion Jake have dug up many surprising resources available to dogs in the Golden State, such as baseball games, summer camps, and pet parades...read more

Product Description: The Dog Lover’s Companion to the San Francisco Bay Area has the inside scoop on the best dog runs, parks, beaches, hiking trails, camping areas, pet-friendly businesses, and much more. Local author Maria Goodavage and her trusty companion Jake have dug up many surprising resources available to dogs in the Bay Area, such as baseball games, cable-car adventures, and ferry trips...read more

Product Description: Sausalito boasts a rich history of life afloat.

Product Description: The unique and colorful houseboat community has long been the centerpiece of life in Sausalito, and while these floating homes are well known, relatively few people know just how far back their history goes. Not a recent phenomenon, as so many assume, the houseboat community has a history stretching back to the 1880s and earlier...read more

Product Description: Writer Susan Frank and cartoonist Phil Frank provide an insider’s view of one of America's most awe-inspiring attractions, the Grand Canyon. Ranger Jack — a cartoon version of Jack O’Brien, the former Chief of Interpretation at Grand Canyon — is the reader's own personal tour guide, offering guidance on every aspect of this popular national park, from the area’s geological and cultural history to the best hiking trails and activities...read more

Product Description: Writer Susan Frank and cartoonist Phil Frank present The Ranger’s Guide to Yellowstone, an insider’s look at Yellowstone National Park. Ranger Norm — a cartoon version of Norm Bishop, a veteran Yellowstone ranger — is the reader's own personal tour guide, offering guidance on every aspect of the park, from Old Faithful to the difference between a grizzly and a black bear...read more

Product Description: Writer Susan Frank and cartoonist Phil Frank provide an insider’s view of one of America’s greatest natural treasures, Yosemite National Park. Ranger Dick — a cartoon version of Dick Ewart, a veteran Yosemite ranger — is the reader's own personal tour guide, offering guidance on every aspect of this popular national park, from the area’s geological and cultural history to the best hiking trails and activities...read more

Product Description: This collection of nearly three hundred strips features a quartet of mischievious urbanized bears that wreak havoc in Yosemite Valley and become a thorn in the side of park rangers.

Product Description: The Dog Lover’s Companion to Florida has the inside scoop on the best parks, restaurants, accommodations, recreation spots, and pet-friendly businesses in the Sunshine State. Expert authors Sally Deneen and Robert McClure and their trusty companion Maggie have dug up many surprising resources available to dogs in Florida, such as an eight-foot-tall "digging mountain," the nation's largest dog park, pet bakeries, and Everglades airboat rides...read more

Product Description: The Dog Lover's Companion to the Bay Area has the inside scoop on the best parks, dog runs, beaches, forest preserves, restaurants, pet-friendly businesses, and much more. Local author Maria Goodavage and her trusty companion Jake have dug up many surprising resources available to dogs in the Bay Area, such as baseball games, cable-car adventures, ferry trips, and wineries...read more

Product Description: This is the story of two small towns, Bolinas and Stinson Beach, and the body of water that separates and joins them. Although San Francisco's packed urban skyline is visible from its shores, this part of West Marin is isolated in spirit and in fact...read more

Product Description: What can you do with your pooch in Chicago when the sweltering summer temperatures make humans pant like Poodles or the snow drifts pile up higher than your Great Dane? Turn to The Dog Lover's Companion to Chicago for the inside scoop on the best parks, dog runs, beaches, forest preserves, pet-friendly businesses, and much more...read more

Product Description: Offering the inside scoop on where dogs are welcome, this special breed of guidebook is perfect for travelers and residents who don't want to leave their canine pals behind. The newest addition to the series, The Dog Lover's Companion to New York City covers the Greater New York City area, including all five boroughs, Long Island, Westchester and Rockland Counties, northern New Jersey and southern Connecticut...read more

Amazon.com Review: There are enough puppy puns here to prompt even the most pious pet lover to protest, but this publication proves itself nonetheless by providing plentiful playground preferences for your pooch and his pals. Author Steve Giordano tours the area with his four-pawed accomplices, fox terriers Emma and Quinn, to get the dirt on Seattle-area parks, beaches, and recreation areas, as well as restaurants and hotels (the people kind that accept the canine kind)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Awesome in its vastness and beauty, the Grand Canyon is unique in all the world. And all the world wants to visit there-which can lead to delay, discomfort, and disappointment for the uninformed who arrive at the same time as everyone else...read more

Product Description: In this detailed, engaging profile of Muir Woods--a redwood wilderness just north of San Francisco--a cartoon park ranger named Mia shows you places to stay, ways to get around, and activities to enjoy at any time of the year. The book is organized in a convenient question-and-answer format and offers a reference section that includes, among other things, a telephone directory, a guide to area resources, a backpacker's checklist, and an overview of regional educational programs...read more

Product Description: An eccentric band of Yosemite-philes offers an amusing and slightly twisted view of life in California's most famous park. Contains over 200 hilarious strips.

Product Description: If you plan a trip to see firsthand the glories of Yellowstone National Park, Pomegranate's Yellowstone Handbook may be an essential addition to your suitcase, backpack, or car's glove compartment. The second in Susan and Phil Frank's ultimately usable "insider's guides" to America's parks, the book is organized in a question-and-answer format that answers such commonly-posed queries as: ""Help! We only have one day to visit--what should we see and do?", "We really want to see wildlife--any suggestions?", "Can you recommend a nice, easy day hike" (or, for the more adventurous: What are some great butt-kicking hikes?)...read more

Provides directions to the park, lists accommodations, suggests activities for all seasons, and offers tips for packing and camping

Product Description: Farley's San Francisco Chronicles by Phil Frank. Foreword by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Cartoonist Phil Frank's daily cartoon strip, Farley, has been keeping a finger on the pulse of the Bay Area for more than ten years...read more