History of Healey and Austin Healey automobiles. Heavily illustrated. Great for Healey auto car buff. Includes mechanical specs and data to tune up engines.

Healeys and Austin-Healeys including Jensen-Healey: An illustrated history of the marque with specifications and tuning data

Peter Browning

Foulis / distributed by Motorb

Over the years, the High Sierra has attracted a diverse group of travelers and residents who have explored its rivers, valleys, mountain peaks, lakes and passes. These names are clues to the colorful and unusual aspects of the area's past, and the people and events that shaped it.In 1926, the Sierra historian Francis Farquhar wrote Place Names of the High Sierra. Published by the Sierra Club, it quickly became a standard reference book. Since then, more than half the names on the present topographic maps of the Sierra have been created, but Farquhar died before he was able to complete his planned revision.Peter Browning, who was given access to Farquhar's extensive revision notes, has written an entirely new book on the place names of the Sierra Nevada. He has perused many original sources, including the place-names files of national parks and forests, the decision lists of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and field notes of the U.S. Geological Survey topographers responsible for naming many of the features.This new book gives the derivation and lore associated with each name as well as quotes from many of the explorers and travelers of the Sierra Nevada.This book also has a very practical value. It gives the topographic map on which to find each of the almost 3000 place names. Altitudes of peaks, passes and lakes are given and each place is located by national park national forest, etc.

Place Names of the Sierra Nevada: From Abbot to Zumwalt

Wilderness Pr

Cover is red with topographical map front.

Yosemite Place Names : The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park

Great West Books

"The story of the California Gold Rush has never been more effectively told." (Contra Costa Times.) Everything in this book is taken from 1848 and 1849 Eastern newspapers. Articles, editorials, sermons, poetry, songs, advertisements, and letters from the multitudes who were striving toward California via the Isthmus of Panama, around Cape Horn, through the Strait of Magellan, across the plains, the Gila River route, and via Mexico and Nicaragua. Here is the California Gold Rush: upheaval, adventure, suffering, death, wonderful success, and tragic failure, the record of the great event of the age.

To the Golden Shore: America Goes to California-1849

History

Americas

San Francisco Bay was discovered in 1769. Eighty years later the city of San Francisco was a boom town with a population of 40,000. Here is the written and visual record of the discovery and exploration of San Francisco Bay, and the founding and settlement of Yerba Buena, which became San Francisco. Recounted by the excerpts from the journals, diaries and books of the discoverers, explorers, foreign visitors, the founder of Yerba Buena, and the contemporary and reminiscent descriptions of those who were there and witnessed the transformation of San Francisco from hamlet to metropolis: Costansó, Ayala, Font, Vancouver, Lamgsdorff, Roquefeuil, Kotzebue, Beechey, Richardson, Simpson, Kemble, and others. Includes many historic maps, charts, illustrations, and the first two surveys of the town of Yerba Buena.

San Francisco: Yerba Buena : From the Beginning to the Gold Rush 1769-1849

Containing the fate of the GET ALL YOU CAN MINING ASSOCIATION. The Gold Rush is vividly depicted in 91 cartoon panels: funny, satirical, grim, and true. With added 1849 newspaper articles. 150th anniversary edition. First published in 1849. Death and the Devil sow California with gold to lure the unwary. At the end, Death fills the cavity made by the extraction of gold with the bones of those who perished in its pursuit.

Outline History of an Expedition to California: Containing the Fate of the Get All You Can Mining Association

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Working for Wages is a memoir of nearly a decade on a driveaway job--driving new cars and trucks from Detroit to Los Angeles between May 1949 and December 1958. Herein an account of who we were, how we lived, and how we talked, the record of a vanished way of life in a country that has changed beyond belief during the past sixty years. None of these tales is precisely true in every respect, yet none is false. Most of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty alike. It is the language that carries the story. Each chapter is headed by a succinct quotation, for example: We belong to suffering; when we misbehave it tightens its hold on us, we have its fingers always round our throats, which makes it difficult to talk; you have to be careful if you want to be able to eat. . . . The merest slip and you're strangled. . . . Life's not worth living. (From Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine.)

Working for Wages: On the Road in the Fifties

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

By the Stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published in 1937. Isobel Field is a wonderful storyteller, and a writer of great wit and acuity. She was with her mother, Fanny, when they met Stevenson in Grez, France in 1876; when Fanny and Louis married in 1880 in San Francisco and at the Silverado sojourn; with the Stevensons in Hawaii in the late 1880s; and finally with them in Samoa from 1890 until Stevenson's death in 1894.

This Life I've Loved: An Autobiography

Isobel Field

Memoirs

In this book are the stories of how the names of features in Yosemite National Park came to be. Includes old names, Indian names, fanciful names, and names that won t be missed. The record of who named what and when; quotations from explorers, soldiers, tourists, and rangers; and the peculiar, humorous, or moving events that gave rise to the names on the maps today. The history of Yosemite is told by these names; the permanent record left by those who have preceded you.

Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park

Most of the less well known early explorers of the Sierra Nevada were private individuals, rather than government expeditions or cartographers. The more literate ones had accounts of their achievements, adventures, andmishaps published in newspapers and journals, often accompanying them with photographs, drawings, and hand-drawn maps. Most of these wilderness travelers have been immortalized by having their names placed on mountains, lakes, and streams: Frank Dusy; Wales, Wallace, and Wright; Theodore S. Solomons; Bolton C. and Lucy Brown; Joseph N. and Marion LeConte; Lt.Nathaniel Fish McClure; Cornelius Beach Bradley; James E. Hutchinson. These are foremost among the few who pioneered the routes that are followed by so many at the present day. Bolton Coit Brown in 1895 wrote: . . . all the splendid mountains away off north and east of Paradise Valley, where the map shows nothing, were beautiful exceedingly . . . .In 1896 Brown made the first ascent of Mount Clarence King, and wrote: The top of the summit block slopes northwest, is about fifteen feet across, and as smooth as a cobblestone. If you fall off one side, you will be killed in the vicinity; if you fall off any of the other sides, you will be pulverized in the remote nadir beneath.

Splendid Mountains

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