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

This book presents and describes more than 100 top views in San Francisco, telling you where they are and why they are important. With the many details given in the book you can replicate Lee Foster’s photos. Even if you don’t have an interest in photography, the book is a useful guidebook to the principal attractions of the city. The book is intended to be both a visual travel guidebook and a photo guidebook.

The book can be ordered on Amazon as a printed book and as an ebook. The ebook version is also available in the Apple iBook Store and the other major ebook stores for B&N Nook and Sony Reader.

Lee’s books/ebooks on Amazon call all be seen together at https://www.amazon.com/author/leefoster.

Or Order Direct, below with Add to Cart, a printed book from Lee Foster, your book autographed if requested!

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

This book presents and describes more than 100 top views in Washington, D.C., telling you where they are and why they are important. With the many details given in the book you can replicate the photos. Even if you don’t have an interest in photography, the book is a useful guidebook to the principal attractions of the Capital. The book is both a visual travel guide and a how-to photo guide.

The book can be ordered on Amazon as a printed book or as a Kindle ebook. The ebook version is also available in the Apple iBook Store and in the stores for Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader. 

Lee’s books/ebooks on Amazon call all be seen together at https://www.amazon.com/author/leefoster.

Or Order Direct, below with Add to Cart, a printed book from Lee Foster, your book autographed if requested!

Note: Lee has an app parallel to this book. See Lee’s apps, right side of this page.

Lee Foster’s travel literary book is TRAVELS IN AN AMERICAN IMAGINATION: THE SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY OF OUR TIME ($14.95, ISBN 0976084309). The book won the Best Travel Commentary Award from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. Lee’s work has won eight Lowell Thomas Awards, the highest awards in travel journalism, including Lee being named Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year (Silver Winner). 

This book is Lee’s vision of our modern life. He contends that we live in a time that is both the most wondrous and the most horrific time ever to be alive. In 25 chapters, each focused on a place in his travels and an insight into our human condition, Foster explores the range of ambivalent feelings that an informed, modern person will experience. Each chapter is preceded by a photo from Lee’s travels to the designated place.

 The book can be ordered on Amazon as a printed book or as an ebook in the Kindle Store. The ebook version is also available in the Apple iBook Store, and in the ebook stores for Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader.

Lee’s books/ebooks on Amazon call all be seen together at https://www.amazon.com/author/leefoster.

Or Order Direct, below with Add to Cart, a printed book  from Lee Foster, with your book autographed if requested!

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

This book describes 52 history-oriented weekend outing adventures in Northern California, including 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.

The book can be ordered on Amazon.

Lee’s books/ebooks on Amazon call all be seen together at https://www.amazon.com/author/leefoster.

Or Order Direct from the Author, Your Book(s) Autographed if Desired!

One of Lee Foster’s earlier guidebooks is ADVENTURE GUIDE TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ($15.95, originally from Hunter Publishing).

This book describes all manner of adventure travel in the Northern California region, including hiking, back country drives, rafting, horseback riding, beachcombing, etc. Some practical information in this book is out of date, but collectors appreciate it for its Northern California insights.

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SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ($12.95, originally published by World of Travel, 1989).

This legacy book is a survey guidebook on Northern California, covering San Francisco and all the regions north, east, and south.  This volume 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.

Also for sale at Amazon.

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MAKING THE MOST OF THE PENINSULA: A CALIFORNIA GUIDE TO SAN MATEO, SANTA CLARA, AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES ($12.95, originally Published by Presidio Press, then by Tioga Publishers, last in 1989).

This is a detailed travel guide book covering the three-county Silicon Valley region south of San Francisco. The volatile travel information in this book is out of date, but the cultural and natural history insights are appreciated by collectors. This was the first thorough guidebook devoted to the region south of San Francisco.

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BACKYARD FARMING ($6.95, originally published by Chronicle Books, 1982).

This book is a classic from the heady days of the 1980s, when organic gardening was a revolutionary matter. The book describes Lee Foster’s rationale and practices for producing food, especially vegetables, ambitiously and organically, in a tight urban environment. Lee grew most of the vegetables for his family of five at that time and published widely in journals such as Rodale’s Organic Gardening.

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THE MESSAGE OF APRIL FOOLS ($9.95, 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.  The novel documents the culture and counterculture scene of the time for the gifted young people in the Stanford world, beset by the new hallucenogens, technology change, and the miltary-industrial complex seemingly out of control.

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JUST 25 CENTS AND THREE WHEATIES BOXTOPS ($9.95, originally published by Pacific Coast Publishers, 1970).

This writing/photography literary book is Lee Foster’s memoir about growing up in a Minnesota America at mid-century. Out of this Minnesota America came a certain sensibility, which animated Humphrey/McCarthy/Mondale and many others. Lee Foster captures in the book this sensibility, with an intimate look at family life as he grew up, providing simultaneously a biography of his life and a generalized portrait of America in that era.

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