San Francisco

San Francisco
Author: Mick Sinclair
Publisher: Interlink Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781566568173

Within a generation San Francisco grew from an isolated Mexican trading post with more hills than people into America’s major Pacific Coast city. Shaped by entrepreneurs, eccentrics, and visionaries, it became renowned for accommodating those who dared to be different. People as diverse as William Randolph Hearst, Lillie Coit, Carol Doda, Jerry Garcia, and Harvey Milk have thrived in San Francisco’s permissive environment as it evolved into one of the world’s most welcoming and visually stunning cities.

San Francisco

San Francisco
Author: Mick Sinclair
Publisher: Signal Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781902669656

As part of the Cities of the Imagination Series, this book presents an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide to San Francisco, a beautiful city renowned for its artists, eccentrics, visionaries, and activism.

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Author: University of California, Berkeley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1878
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Literary Trips

Literary Trips
Author: Victoria Brooks
Publisher: GreatestEscapes.com Publishing
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780968613702

"Slices of on-the-road literary history and detail-rich travel romps with famous writers." Sheila F. Buckmaster, senior editor, National Geographic Traveler

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Author: California. University
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1875
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Literary Industries

Literary Industries
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-12-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1597142824

An autobiography of the bookseller, library collector, man of letters, and historian of the American West edited by his great-great granddaughter. A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and Mexican settlers; and published multiple volumes sold throughout the country by his subscription agents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, aptly entitled Literary Industries. Literary Industries sparkles with the exuberance of nineteenth-century California and introduces us to a man of great complexity and wit. Edited for the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place—and as it was being recorded—Kim Bancroft’s edition of Literary Industries is a joy to read.

Literary Visions of Homosexuality

Literary Visions of Homosexuality
Author: Stuart Kellogg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317735102

An important contribution to the rapidly growing field of gay literary criticism and scholarship, this volume contains well-written and intelligently argued essays on the the homosexual tradition in Western literature. The first book of its kind, Essays on Gay Literature investigates the ways in which homosexuality has been viewed by a variety of authors from the Middle Ages to the present, including William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, E. M. Forster, James Merrill, Henry James, and William Faulkner.