Originally published in 1972, CANYON recounts the struggle for survival, against powerful and determined opposition, of a counter-cultural community tucked in a redwood canyon about eight miles from San Francisco. A community of individuals united by the idea of living complimentary to nature rather than subduing it, the men and women of Canyon developed strategies of community organization, resistance, management of resources and political moxie some foolish, some prescient that allowed the community to survive, barely then, and provide what The New York Times termed A blueprint for meeting nature half-way. Mr. van der Zee has added a heartfelt fore and afterword, a reflection on his findings in the small community of Canyon as a young man, through the sagest view of an accomplished writer and grandfather today. ...Canyon has survived and even thrived, often in the face of determined and powerful opposition, in the process acting out some of the most fundamental questions concerning the American national character. How shall we live on this land which all of us, save Native Americans came to as strangers. What comforts are we willing to sacrifice in the interest of freedom?

Canyon: The Story of the Last Rustic Community in Metropolitan America

Literature & Fiction

John van der Zee

Literary

Grizzly Peak Press

John van der Zee, author of Canyon and the bestseller The Gate , has gathered together a delightful collection of stories by San Francisco natives, both luminaries and just plain folks. The tales range from poignant to wry to charmingly funny, demonstrating the idiosyncratic nature that is our every San Franciscan.
 San Francisco Childhood forms a magical portrait of what it means to grow up in The City. Included in the book are works featuring: Ansel Adams Robert Frost Isadora Duncan Frank Norris Carl Nolte James J. Corbett Robert McNamara Mae Ngai Joe DiMaggio Maya Angelou Gus Lee John Patrick Diggins Kevin J. Mullen Robert Carson Rube Goldberg Jerry Garcia Carol Channing Anne Lamott Margaret Cho Anita Loos Ernest Lageson Sean Wilsey Lincoln Mitchell TAD John van der Zee

San Francisco Childhood, Memories of a Great City Seen Through the Eyes of Its Children

Friday night at Lompoc Federal Prison Camp: after a dinner of battered deep-fried chicken strips, canned corn, faded green lettuce and a banana, I walked the circle around the camp alone, tonight. The muscles around my two hip replacements hurt a little, five days of unaccustomed physical work had stiffened them up. I walked slowly and stiff-legged. The fog had come in early, the air was a bit chilled, and my spirits were elevated.

Walking the Circle - Prison Chronicles

Biographies & Memoirs

J Tony Serra

Professionals & Academics

A wonderful accounting of some of the most riveting trials of famed criminal defense attorney in his own words from the Black Panthers, S.L.A., New World Liberation Front, Nuestra Familia, Earth First, Hells Angels, Mob and Native Americans. Serra wrote the book while in serving in a Federal Prison Camp for the willful failure to pay income tax.

Tony Serra

San Franciscans from the Gold Rush of 1849 to yesterday have had a fascination with larger-than-life characters from heroes and heroines to scoundrels who have added a sense of vigor and panache to the city. Many of the prominent figures in this book have lived, worked, or just hung out in North Beach. The result is a vibrant, cultural hodge-podge a San Francisco treasure, an exciting place to live or if you re a visitor to dine, shop or just stroll the streets. These sketches present some of the distinctive contributors to the laid back, laisse faire atmosphere and attitudes of the old San Francisco neighborhoood.

Sketches From A North Beach Journal

History

Ernest Beyl

Americas

Beginning with an outline as a young lawyer around 1960 and finally completed in prison as a tax resister 50 or so years later, J. Tony Serra has completed his first novel, THE SCAFFOLD: A Treason Death Penalty Trial. Taking place historically during the Second World War in the South Pacific with U.S. P.T. Boats, Japanese zero attack planes, and on an island paradise, this court martial trial is filled with Serra's legal career experiences but is an example of life as absurdity, all aspects of life are metaphors of absurdity, thinking intellectually in the Theater of the Absurd. The message, if there is a message, is that war is absurd; treason is absurd; the death penalty is absurd and that platonic love is humanity's only redemption.

The Scaffold

San Francisco Appetites and Afterthoughts is Ernie Beyl s second book published by Grizzly Peak Press. His rst, Sketches from a North Beach Journal, traced the city s history with pro les of larger-than-life characters who have added so much panache and excitement to the old neighborhood. San Francisco Appetites and Afterthoughts is an opinionated book by an opinionated guy. It hits the reader right between the ears. Open this book to any page and it hooks you: Levi Strauss and the copper rivets on his jeans and why they were removed from the crotch, Agnes von Kurowsky s Dear John letter to Ernest Hemingway relates to Ernie s Dear John letter after taking his girl- friend to the top of the Mark before he shipped out with the Marine Corps, The Haphazard Gourmet who gives Ernie his recipe for cassoulet because he knows a seduction depends on it. The book feature s Ernie s passions his appetites for fascinating characters he s known over the years in San Francisco from poets to bartenders, from saloons to jazz. It s the author s life in the provocative city by the Golden Gate.

San Francisco Appetites And Afterthoughts

Ernie Beyl

This is a groundbreaking, marvelously informative guide that reveals the power, history, and necessity of punctuation. Using the trope of the marks as living creatures and weaving together style, typography, science, and dry humor, Albert Drosoph's Field Guide to Punctuation untangles the mysteries of punctuation in a non-threatening way. Rather than wanting to shrink from encounters with these marks in anything read, or rather than worrying about where and how to use them in anything written, readers of this book will intentionally seek out the marks and observe, with a new appreciation, what they are doing and how they are doing it. This book will surely change your mind even if you've never considered these tiny marks with anything even approaching interest. After reading Drosoph, you will be interested and informed, and you'll never look at a mark of punctuation in the same way again. Albert Drosoph's Field Guide to Punctuation distills extraordinary research of writing styles, conventions, and history into a handy assistant. Take it with you whenever you venture into the worlds of reading or writing; you'll find it indispensable.

Albert Drosoph's Field Guide to Punctuation

Education & Teaching

Jenny Hammer

Schools & Teaching

English Ph.D. Derek Rosenblum, the hero of this comic, often shocking novel, can t land a full-time teaching position. After too many years of marginal employment, he wonders: is Dulness, the moronic presiding deity of Alexander Pope s great satiric Dunciad, somehow responsible for the series of misadventures that make up his life? She s only a fiction, Derek tells himself, but he senses her presence everywhere. The authoritative figures he encounters Lucia Luteplucker, his unhelpful adviser at Heartland U, Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher impress him as her fleshly incarnations. They and others constantly thwart Derek, until he discovers just what the goddess wants and gives it to her. Soon he s offered the job of his dreams, and happily tenured Full Professor Rosenblum spends thirty comfortable years boring students. Then, as Welcome, Scholar concludes, final catastrophe arrives.

Welcome, Scholar

Jake Fuchs

Ernest Beyl, author of Stops along the Royal Road, is an inveterate reader of travel books, but no armchair traveler or couch potato. In Stops along the Royal Road he pays tribute to writers who have given him an uncontrollable itch to move about the globe. ese include Richard Halliburton who wrote e Royal Road to Romance that Beyl long ago decided to emulate. In this book his improbable adventures range around the Orient, Southeast Asia, Australasia, South America, Europe, and, of course, the United States. Some chapters are dramatic, personal ep- isodes: visiting Shanghai before it fell to the Chinese communists, photographing Ja- pan s Emperor Hirohito, climbing an Andes peak overlooking the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, watching as famous matador Anto- nio Ordonez is gored in the bullring. Others are comic adventures: partying with Ernest Hemingway and Gary Coo- per at Sun Valley, drinking tequila shot- for-shot with Elizabeth Taylor and Rich- ard Burton in Puerto Vallarta, attending a swank party at the colonial Hong Kong governor s residence with his date dressed fashionably as a gorilla. Here then is our wide-eyed author fol- lowing the footsteps of his idols. Reading about his adventures will surely cause that uncontrollable itch to travel an urge to take o by train, plane, or on foot, the way he does.

Stops Along the Royal Road

Travel

Specialty Travel

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