Hardy Californians - a Woman's Life with Native Plants Tahoe Hiking Philip Fradkin has updated this

Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface

The new edition of the book that Roger Tory Peterson called a "landmark" integrates an array of carefully selected photographs

Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore these remnants of the past

Stagecoaches and the routes they traveled capture our imagination because of the romance

Hardy Californians - a Woman's Life with Native Plants Tahoe Hiking Philip Fradkin has updated thisLester G. E. Rowntree (1879 1979), free spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains, deserts, and forests. Through hundreds of magazine and journal articles, two acclaimed books, and uncounted public lectures, Rowntree shared her vast knowledge of California native plants and at the same time argued passionately for the protection of