I've read this book in this week. This book has a lot of information of San Francisco, such as history, land, travel and sightseeing and so on. This book has 10 chapters. I'll refer to some chapters which I think are interesting.
1. The city of hills
This chapter is introduction of this book. San Francisco is located in the west coast of the United States, States of California.
2. Early days
This chapter is about history of San Francisco. People began to live here thousands of years ago. People were Native Americans. The reason why people lived here was feature of land. San Francisco is in bay side area, so people got a lot of seafood and wild animals. I think that San Francisco has many elements which people should live. These vital elements are water, food, sea and mountains I think. There is a most important incident in San Francisco. It is a 'Gold rush'! The founder of gold for the first time was a worker called James Marshall. He found it in the river. Many people came here and looked for gold, and it's about 40,000 people. They came from Asia, Europe and around the world! It flourished in 1849. There is a American football team named 'San Francisco 49ers'. It was made from gold rush. San Francisco developed on account of this historical incident.
3. From 1906 to the Summer of Love
4. The fog and the fault
San Francisco had experienced a lot of disaster, such as fog, too much rain and earthquake. In 1989, there was a big earthquake, the Loma Prieta earthqake. San Francisco includes San Andreas Fault. That's why it's easy to occur earthquake, like Japan and Indonesia. In this book, we can see 'More than three thousand people lost their homes and about sixty people died.'(p.17)
5. Travel
6. The bridge and Alcatraz
7. Golden Gate Park
8. Going out
9. Shopping and eating
People live in San Francisco like reading books. There is a most famous bookshop named City Lights in the North Beach neighborhood. There are a lot of exciting shopping spot there. After shopping, we can go restaurants where offer us so delicious food and gather many kinds of food all over the world.
10. A little differently
If you are interested in this book or, San Francisco, please read it and go there!
Janet Hardy-Gould, San Francisco. 2012. Oxford.
