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Lee Foster’s newest travel guidebooks are 2009 books from Countryman/Norton. The first is THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO ($14.95, ISBN 978-0881508147).

This book describes where to photograph or visualize the City, with and without a camera. 

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Lee Foster’s second new book for 2009, also from Countryman/Norton, is THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S GUIDE TO WASHINGTON DC (With Ann Purcell, $14.95, ISBN 978-0881508185).

This book will help a traveler photograph and visualize the icons of the Capital.

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Lee Foster’s recent literary book is TRAVELS IN AN AMERICAN IMAGINATION: THE SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY OF OUR TIME ($14.95, ISBN 0976084309).

This book is Lee’s vision of our modern life. We live in a time that is both the most wondrous and the most horrific time in the human journey.

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Lee Foster’s recent travel guidebook is NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY WEEKENDS (Globe Pequot, $15.95, ISBN 0-7267-1076-4).

This book describes 52 history weekends in Northern California, plus Lee’s suggestions for a good dining and lodging experience on each trip. The book considers the appropriate time of year for various trips and projects a clockwise sequence of outings, starting in the San Francisco region, then exploring north, east, and south. This book won a Lowell Thomas Award for guidebooks.

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One of Lee Foster’s earlier guidebooks is ADVENTURE GUIDE TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ($15.95, Hunter Publishing, ISBN 1-55650-821-2).

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SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (Originally published by World of Travel, 1989.) A survey guidebook on Northern California, covering San Francisco and all the regions north, east, and south. $12.95. This book was part of a national chain of guidebooks originally set up by Robert Fisher. The changeable information in this book is now out of date, but it is appreciated for its overview of Northern California.

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Also for sale at Amazon.

MAKING THE MOST OF THE PENINSULA: A CALIFORNIA GUIDE TO SAN MATEO, SANTA CLARA, AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES (Original Published by Presidio Press, then by Tioga Publishers, last in 1989.) This is a detailed book on the Silicon Valley region south of San Francisco. $12.95. The volatile travel information in this book is out of date, but the cultural and natural history insights are appreciated by fans of this thorough book on the region south of San Francisco.

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BACKYARD FARMING (Originally published by Chronicle Books, 1982.) This book is a small classic from the heady days of the 1980s, when organic gardening was a revolutionary matter. The book describes the rationale and practicalities of producing food, especially vegetables, ambitiously and organically, in a tight urban environment, as the author did during the energy crunch era of the 1970s-early 1980s. $6.95.

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THE MESSAGE OF APRIL FOOLS (Originally published by Pacific Coast Publishers, 1970.)

This novel, set at Stanford in the 1960s, is about being young and on the home front in the divisive and contentious Vietnam War era. $9.95.

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JUST 25 CENTS AND THREE WHEATIES BOXTOPS (Originally published by Pacific Coast Publishers, 1970.)

This writing/photography book is Lee Foster’s memoir about growing up in a Minnesota America at mid-century. $9.95.

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