from America's Vanishing Landscapes photo: Wayne Williams
Bored Feet? Let's go hiking...
...in Mendocino County
...in Sonoma County
...in Humboldt County
...in the Sierra Nevada
...along the California Coast
...throughout California & the West
...or in far-off Patagonia
New and Exciting from Bored Feet:
Royal Robbins: My Life: Volume One; To Be Brave
Royal Robbins has created a powerful and engaging, startling memoir that provides a more satisfying answer to the question, “Why climb?”, or indeed, why we pursue any challenging outdoor pursuit.
Angels in the Wilderness
Now in paperback
Solo backpacker Amy Racina fell sixty feet onto solid granite during a 16-day solo hiking trip. In this gripping account, Amy tells how she survived in the wilderness with both legs broken, her rescue, and her recovery.
Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons
Bishop to Lone Pine
This handsome and handy guide covers thirteen dramatic eastside Sierra Canyons. Starting around the spectacular forks of Bishop Canyon, Sharon divulges a wealth of hikes both popular and obscure, then continues south to include hikes near Mount Whitney.
At Bored Feet, the fantastic diversity of quality products from small independent presses continues to amaze us. This season finds us with a cornucopia of great new titles. Here's a sampling:
HOT OFF THE PRESS!
- We’re now carrying the excellent Bluewater satellite-image Maps, one of the most exciting new maps lines we’ve ever sold. Bluewater newest line has great maps of Coastal California, and they also produce six great satellite-image maps of other western regions. And don't miss our other map lines:
- Redwood Hikes Press: exquisitely detailed maps of parks in the redwood region
- Tom Harrison Maps: famously accurate trail & recreation maps for California, including the Sierra Nevada and southern California.
- Earthwalk Press Maps: recreation maps for select western parks, travel destinations, & wilderness areas.
- Pease Press Maps: Recreation Maps of the greater San Francisco Bay area.
- Franko's Maps: for hikers, travelers, divers, surfers & others covering Southern California, Hawaii, Mexico, Guam, & the Caribbean
- Imus Geographics Maps: state maps for Alaska & Oregon, plus topographic recreation maps for the Sierra Nevada & Chugach State Park (Alaska)
- Walk the Sky, a gorgeous new photo book about the John Muir Trail of California's Sierra Nevada, is available now, and don't miss the other beautiful photo books from Companion Press
- AN EXCITING NEW ITEM! Nutcracker Ballet Playing Cards. And don't forget Prospero Art's other playing card sets: Shakespeare Playing Cards: A quote from the Bard on every card! Plus Alice in Wonderland Playing Cards
- If you have children, check out Etan Boritzer's What is... series. These books will help children come to terms with the difficult questions of life, love, god, beauty, money, and more, including the brand new What Is a Friend?
- A must-have for naturalists or other curious people who visit California's Sierra Nevada mountains: Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada. This guide covers plants, mammals, insects, spiders, and more... even plant galls.
- We have two more brand new titles about the Sierra Nevada: The High Sierra of California features stunning woodcuts by Tom Killion plus poems and journal entries by Gary Snyder. Sierra Birds: A Hiker's Guide exhaustively covers—you guessed it— the birds of the Sierra.
- The Third Edition of The Hiker's hip pocket Guide to Sonoma County is shipping!
- You probably thought you'd never find a fascinating book about pomegranates, but here it is.
- Amy Racina’s new Angels in the Wilderness: The True Story of One Woman’s Survival Against All Odds tells the story of her harrowing adventure in the Sierra Nevada. Outdoor lovers should read this suspenseful and ultimately inspiring story.
- We are extremely proud of Sharon Giacomazzi’s, Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons Now’s the time to start planning next Summer’s adventures in the high Sierra! Plus, the ten canyons open in winter list winter sports activity.
Some other recent additions to Bored Feet’s Library:
- Bored Feet is proud to present three excellent children’s story books about the early settlers of the American West, The Balloon Boy of San Francisco and Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl, both by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, and Patty Reed's Doll: The Story of the Donner Party, a classic of western history for children by Rachel Laurgaard. All three books feature excellent and compelling storytelling, plus a strong and accurate historical perspective on their times and settings.
- Mapaholics cannot live for another week without a copy of Rich Owings’ brand new GPS Mapping. Learn how to make your own maps using free USGS maps and the global positioning system.
- In a different, also spiritually focused vein, Thaïs Mazur's compelling book, Warrior Mothers, documents 24 inspiring mothers and their actions to create a better world.
Special reduced price items:
- Olaf Palm; A Life in Art
- Clueless George Presidential Library
- Wood, Water Air & Fire
- Say Yes Quickly
- Artist’s Choice
- America’s Vanishing Landscapes
And don‘t foget the books that made Bored Feet famous:
- The Hiker‘s hip pocket Guides
- Hiking the California Coastal Trail
- The Mendocino Coast Glove Box Guide
Who We Are (In Case You Didn't Know)
Bored Feet Press, a small publisher founded in 1986, is proud to celebrate our 24th year of providing great and accurate books and maps. We now publishes twelve highly regarded guidebooks to California and four fine poetry titles. Since 1995 we’ve also been a distributor for carefully selected micro-publishers. Today we bring you the best in quality books and maps produced by more than 65 small publishers.
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