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imagelinks[1]="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965308715/ref=nosim/localpicscom"
imagelinks[2]="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0918684730/ref=nosim/localpicscom"
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captions[1]="Photosecrets San Francisco and Northern California"
captions[2]="Above San Francisco"
captions[3]="San Francisco: Then and Now"
captions[4]="San Francisco: A Photographic Celebration"
captions[5]="The Barbary Coast by Herbert Asbury"
captions[6]="San Francisco: City by the Bay"



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summary[1]="Packed with over 400 color pictures, PhotoSecrets shows you all the most visually distinctive sights that YOU can photograph. Maps and text describe the what, where, when and how of every shot. Tips and ideas spur your own creativity."
summary[2]="Above San Francisco covers the Bay Area in sections of: THE BAY AND BRIDGES, THE CITY, THE EAST BAY, THE SOUTH BAY, THE NORTH BAY.  Photographs by Robert Cameron.  Text by Arthur Hoppe."
summary[3]="The natives call it simply 'the City.' This is the story of the changing face of San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities in the world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with seventy archival photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s. While focusing on famous vistas and familiar landmarks, it also explores well-known neighborhoods."
summary[4]="Quirky, dynamic, breathtaking, and wonderfully overwhelming--there is no singular way to describe San Francisco. If it is possible to capture the spirit of this amazing Californian city in one book, then San Francisco: A Photographic Celebration is the book to do it. More than anything, it celebrates the diversity of the city's cultures, landscapes, people, and architecture. Spectacular shots of the modern San Francisco skyline are juxtaposed with photos of the Palace of Fine Arts, an exquisite Egyptian-style building of vast proportions..."
summary[5]="From the author of Gangs of New York...The Barbary Coast is Herbert Asbury’s classic chronicle of the birth of San Francisco—a violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields...This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later."
summary[6]="Unparalleled in scope and intimacy, Morton Beebe's beautiful photographic excursion around his native San Francisco contains more than 200 full-color pictures of favorite sights in and around the City by the Bay, and essays by well-known San Franciscans capture the vitality and allure of this diverse and fascinating city. Now in its Third Edition, this popular classic has been substantially revised and expanded-with 90 new color photos and three new essays..." 


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