San Francisco & Northern California Eyewitness travel guide from Dorling Kindersley is a lavishly illustrated book concerned with providing the visitor with detailed background information to sightseeing in the country & a broad cultural introduction. Popular historical buildings & museums are often described with cutaway diagrams allowing you to view ...

San Francisco on a waterproof & tear-resistant, very clear & well presented street plan, extending further south than most tourist maps of the city, with on the reverse a road map of northern California with altitude colouring emphasizing its topography. On one side is a street plan of San Francisco at 1: 12, 500, extending from the Bay to the Pacific & further south than most tourist street plans, beyond Haight-Ashbury & Castro to, on the Pacific side, the Zoo & Lakeside, & on the Bay side to the UCSF Campus in Mission Bay. Names of districts are clearly shown, with main traffic arteries highlighted & one way streets marked. Lines & stops of the transit system, including the cable car & the vintage tram lines, are also very well presented. The colouring indicates the city’s numerous parks & green spaces. The map highlights locations of various places of interest & numerous hotels. Street index is next to the plan. Also included is a diagram of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, plus a small road map of the region showing access to the international airport, the A1 Pacific Highway, Oakl&, Berkeley, etc. On the reverse is a road map of northern California at 1:1, 000, 000 extending south to Santa Barbara & north to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Altitude colouring with elevation in feet presents the topography. The map shows the region’s road & rail networks, & highlights national parks & other protected areas, campsites & various places of interest. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals. The index is next to the map. To see other regional titles from ITMB covering USA please click on the series link. ...

San Francisco & the Bay area in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

San Francisco & Northern Peninsula Cities in California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Insets provide a more detailed street plan of downtown San Francisco & a road map of San Francisco & vicinity. Communities covered by this map include Daly City, Half Moon Bay, Millbrae, Pacifica, San Bruno, South San Francisco, plus the city`s international airport.`NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked. ...

This series aims to draw out the vitality & uniqueness of the worlds greatest cities ? strikingly photographed, designed & produced, but practical with easy-to-read maps & pacy, informed & enjoyable texts.. From off-beat cafes & cutting-edge restaurants to the most specialized boutiques, chicest hotels & interesting neighbourhoods, Style City seeks out & reveals all those wonderful places you?ll find only in that city, where in-the-know locals & discerning travellers will find a vibrant & idiosyncratic experience. San Francisco gets the Style City treatment in this edition. ...

Wallpaper City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, & drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up & coming areas, landmark buildings in an ' Architour', design centres, & the best shops to buy items unique to that city. Wallpaper City Guides present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, most exciting, & the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, & have tabbed sections so that readers can easily find the information they are looking for. The guides include rate & currency information, maps & a colour-coding system to help you navigate the different parts of the city. They are the ultimate combination of form & function. ...

San Francisco in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

About this series: Detailed sightseeing & restaurant guides that are very easy to use. Different coloured text is used to distinguish between sights, restaurants, shops & hotels. All main entries are cross-referenced to street diagrams that are given at the start of every chapter. Plans of the most popular sights, galleries, museums & shopping streets are included. ...

San Francisco on a very clear, well presented street plan, extending further south than most tourist maps of the city, with on the reverse a road map of northern California with altitude colouring emphasizing its topography; printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. On one side is a street plan of San Francisco at 1: 12, 500, extending from the Bay to the Pacific & further south than most tourist street plans, beyond Haight-Ashbury & Castro to, on the Pacific side, the Zoo & Lakeside, & on the Bay side to the UCSF Campus in Mission Bay. Names of districts are clearly shown, with main traffic arteries highlighted & one way streets marked. Lines & stops of the transit system, including the cable car & the vintage tram lines, are also very well presented. The colouring indicates the city ...

San Francisco & Northern Peninsula Cities in California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Insets provide a more detailed street plan of downtown San Francisco, a plan of the city ...