Mount Tamalpais, a History
Author | : Lincoln Fairley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Lincoln Fairley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Barry Spitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Backpacking |
ISBN | : 9781932519372 |
Updated and expanded edition of the classic guide to hiking Mount Tamalpais: detailed descriptions of more than 160 trails and fire roads; every trail revisited and revised; new maps; human and natural history highlights.
Author | : Etel Adnan |
Publisher | : Litmus Press / Post-Apollo Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781933959450 |
"Originally published in 1986, Journey to Mount Tamalpais is at once a love letter and a deep study in prose and drawings of and to a mountain, a landscape, a geological presence, a place. With a career spanning decades, genres, and nations, Etel Adnan's contributions to the fields of poetry, painting, philosophy, and journalism are indelible. In Journey to Mount Tamalpais, her alchemical command of language is enhanced by the use of painting and drawing as exploratory tools to express that which lies beyond the reach of the written word. This volume remains one of her most beloved works and a stunning example of her marriage of the visual and literary arts. A prose essay written with the lyricism and precision of a master poet, Journey to Mount Tamalpais documents Adnan's encounter with the Mountain, as both its witness and its collaborator. This expanded second edition includes an afterword by Omar Berrada and nine new drawings by the author"--
Author | : Jack Gibson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738593176 |
Mount Tamalpais rose from the land that has become Marin County. As the crown jewel of the Marin Municipal Water District, the mountain and adjoining watersheds total 22,000 acres. These properties sit adjacent to county open space as well as holdings of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Mount Tamalpais State Park. Together, the land provides an unparalleled world-class recreation and wilderness area only 30 minutes from the city of San Francisco. Amidst the upheaval of the Progressive Era, the Water District was chartered in 1912 by citizens of Marin County to create a public water system and to fulfill the promise of a park. Rich with possibility, the land had remained surprisingly undeveloped throughout the 19th century. Surviving the Gold Rush, a notorious period of wanton greed for natural resources, the mountain needed protection. Armed with the power of eminent domain, the Water District started the conversion of the vast watershed areas from private to community ownership, a process that ultimately saved the mountain and left in its formidable shadow the beloved and beautifully preserved natural land of the Mount Tamalpais Watershed.
Author | : Fred Runner |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738559421 |
"A hundred years ago, high on the summit of Mount Tamalpais, stood a grand lodge with a breathtaking view. For 33 years, elegantly dressed men and women came to visit on the gritty steam trains of a famous twisting railroad known affectionately as the Crookedest Railroad in the World. They could dine, dance, and spend the night, and in the morning coast down the mountain in a gravity car. The Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway had 281 curves in 8 1/5 miles. It had a branch into Muir Woods. It was built by business-minded conservationists in seven months in 1896 and climbed from a depot on the dirt streets of Mill Valley through a redwood forest and on to the rocky summit one-half mile above San Francisco Bay"--P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Theodore G. Wurm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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"Here is a readable history of the railway's 30 years of existence -- its planning and construction, branch lines, methods of operation. Read about how it pioneered in novel equipment, watering wheels, heating feedwater in the stack, and being one of the first to use oil burning locomotives exclusively"-- book jacket.
Author | : Tom Killion |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781597142595 |
Presents a poetic tribute to Mount Tamalpais's unique natural, cultural, and historical dimensions complemented by artwork and selections from the writings of classic authors.
Author | : Ron Olson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Marin County (Calif.) |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Marin County (Calif.) |
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Author | : Matthew Davis |
Publisher | : Counterpoint Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781593761271 |
In 1965, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen gathered at the base of Mt. Tamalpais, a lovely small mountain in Marin County that anchors the San Francisco Bay on its northwest side. Inspired by Tibetan and Indian practices of walking clockwise — “the way of the sun” — around a venerated object, they “opened the mountain” by completing the first circumambulation. They did it again two years later, a month after the “Human Be-in” in Golden Gate Park, and with greater company as they invited the public to join them. The practice has continued almost uninterrupted for forty years, with Matthew Davis finding an organizing role on April 8, 1971, the Buddha's birthday, when he first led the walk. He has led the celebrations more than 140 times since. The ritual walk — slightly less than 15 miles in length — marks the four quarters of the year. Ten way stations have been established for ceremonial chanting and prayer. With 80 remarkable photographs by Michael Farrell Scott, lovely drawings and maps, chants and poems, this book documents not only this particular spiritual practice but offers guidance for others wishing to establish similar practices in their own areas.