Mary Burk, Adah Bakalinsky

Stairway Walks in San Francisco (eBook, ePUB)

The Joy of Urban Exploring

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

See San Francisco like never before: Step up to 39 of its best stairway walks!



Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco's boundless hills, revealing scenic vistas and connecting colorful, diverse neighborhoods. Since 1984, Stairway Walks in San Francisco has been helping urban explorers discover the best of the City by the Bay via riser and handrail. Now in its 10th edition, this beloved guidebook by Mary Burk with Adah Bakalinsky includes four new walks, updates of classic favorites, and many new photographs.



The amazing walks invite you to explore well-known and clandestine corridors, from Marshall Beach and Noe Valley to Lands End and Telegraph Hill. Whether you want to learn about the city's history and architecture, elevate your exercise routine, or just let your feet lead the way to new adventures, Stairway Walks in San Francisco has something for everyone.



Book Features

• Comprehensive list of the city's 600-plus stairways
• 39 walks incorporating San Francisco's magnificent stairway network
• Lively route descriptions, at-a-glance Quick-Step summaries, and easy-to-read maps
• Parking and public-transportation information for each walk

Stairway Walks in San Francisco has been the essential city walking guide for more than 40 years! Get this updated edition, and start walking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilderness Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780899978659
• Artikelnr.: 72244444

Autorenporträt

Mary Burk has been walking the stairways of San Francisco since the 1980s. While researching the city and its seven hills, Mary discovered Adah Bakalinsky's book and quickly fell in love with her unique way of bringing the city to life.



Mary and Adah first met at a book event for the fourth edition at the San Francisco Main Public Library. The two became fast friends, bonding through their deep interest in exploring the city on foot. Adah shared with Mary how every walk has its own rhythm, and so the two of them began improvising new walks together. Three editions later, Adah passed the torch to Mary.



Mary and Adah still walk together and scout out new stairways and interesting routes for upcoming editions. When not out walking, Mary works as a software systems consultant and enjoys swimming and cooking. She shares a home with her husband, their two cats, and their 25-year-old plecostomus (catfish).



Adah Bakalinsky grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, surrounded by flat land. She remembers trying, as a child, to walk up icy Ramsey Hill (near Pleasant Avenue) in winter, slithering down, trying again, and finally reaching the top. Fifty years later, while walking the old neighborhood on a visit, she discovered a stairway had been built to ascend the hill!



Looking for a synthesis for her social work, music, and film background, she discovered, surprisingly, that it was walking. She walks and, as she walks, she talks to whomever will talk with her. She carries a tape recorder to capture stories; she finds that walks shape themselves into a variety of musical forms and dances, and she redesigns a walk until it has just the rhythm it must have. She walks to see and returns to photograph the objects that give flavor to the walk. She feels lucky to live in San Francisco, where walking seems the most natural way to traverse the city.



Happy heeling, frisky footing, and merry walking!

Inhaltsangabe

1. Yerba Buena Cove, Telegraph Hill & Chinatown
* Treasures & Digressions
2. Telegraph Hill & North Beach
* Old Neighborhoods
3. Nob Hill
* Castles in the Air
4. Russian Hill South
* Speaking of Intangibles
5. Russian Hill North
* San Francisco Architectural Signatures
6. Fort Mason
* North Waterfront: A Segmented Metamorphosis o'er Land & Sea
7. Pacific Heights
* Walk Forward, But Always Look Back
8. Presidio Wall & Marina Waterfront
* Tripping Lightly
9. Fort Winfield Scott in the Presidio
* A Magical Walk
10. Lands End
* Sutro's Legacy for All Time
11. Golden Gate Heights
* Lead Thread on a Sugar Sack
12. St. Francis Wood
* Links & Conundrums
13. Mount Davidson
* Now You See It, Now You Don't: Discover the Fog & Light of San
Francisco
14. Edgehill
* Chert, Hideaway Paths & Open Space
15. Forest Hill
* Marienbad in San Francisco
16. Forest Knolls
* Grading & Sliding, Fog & Drip
17. Twin Peaks Foothills
* Angle vs. Contour
18. Upper Market
* Narrow Streets, Privacy & Quiet Among the Planets
19. Corona Heights
* Trees, Rocks & Underground Wiring
20. Eureka Valley
* Amazing Footpaths
21. Dolores Heights
* A Mondrian Walk
22. Potrero Hill
* From Ship Building Through Dot-Com to Biotech
23. Bernal Heights East
* Stairway Trails
24. Bernal Heights West
* Circling Two Hills
25. Diamond Heights, Fairmount Heights & Glen Canyon Park
* Follow the Curve, Follow the View
26. McLaren Park & Excelsior
* A Harmonious Walk
27. Four Hills
* Views, Views, Views! A Hop from Hill to Hill
28. Sunnyside
* Jazz & Beyond
29. The Blue Greenway
* Past, Present & Future
30. Upper Haight
* The Good View
31. Dogpatch
* The Serendipity Slipknot
32. Noe Valley
* A Glorious Grade
33. Golden Gate Park
* The  East Side Route
34. Marshall Beach
* Take the Trail, It's a Stairway