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Northern California Handbook: Including San Francisco, Wine Country, Big Sur, Yosemite, Redwood Coast (Moon Handbooks : Northern California)
by Kim Weir
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Moon Travel Handbooks (1994-02)
ISBN: 0918373840
EAN: 9780918373847
Dewy Decimal #: 917.94
Paperback: 800 pages
Edition: 2nd
SKU: mon0000022672
Condition: Good
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Customer Reviews
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An o k handbook, but a much better fire starter....
Rating  (1)
Date: 2001-11-24
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was given this book by a good friend of mine for my 67th birthday last October. A good friend, a man with good taste and a great sense and wonder for the outdoors. But I must be candid about this book. It simply sucks. Kim Keir is not only biased, but is a poor writer who lacks scope and detail in her descriptions of the great Northern Cal.
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Encyclopedic, but biased
Rating  (3)
Date: 1999-04-17
5 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
In general Moon travel guides are encyclopedic, and "Northern California Handbook" at nearly 800 pages of fine print is not an exception. Hotels and restaurants are subjectively described rather than rated, which I find preferable to the AAA approach. I purchased the guidebook for a visit to the "gold country", and unfortunately found it to be offensive. It refers to miners as "barbarians"and "lustful legions", refers to use of pig latin by miners as "hog" latin, refers to the 1849 gold rush as "the peak years of greed", hard rock mining is refered to as a "corporate raid", hard rock miners are described as being "like monstrous moles burrowing ... to bleed ancient veins", describes the very pleasant and beautiful Malakoff Diggins State Park as "horrifying" and "ghoulish", calls mining "land rape". The author gleefully describes bigotry toward Chinese miners, but is apparently oblivious of her own prejudice toward non-Asian miners--many of whom were Latin Americans (including Mexicans among others), free Black Americans, and Cherokee Indians from Georgia. It is not at all clear that Chinese miners were less "greedy" nor otherwise morally superior to non-Asian miners. Indeed far more Chinese miners were injured and killed in tong wars among themselves than by non-Asians. I am part Native American myself, and I personally have a deep seated pro-Asian prejudice as a result of a very kindly Chinese neighbor when I was a small child, but I manage to avoid expressing such prejudice in print, and certainly do not express it by denigrating non-Asians and non-Native Americans
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