Most Popular Books by Malcolm Margolin

A concise, "colorful, well-told" history of the City by the Bay, from the Gold Rush to the Summer of Love to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times). This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the transcontinental railroad and the cable car, labor strife and political shenanigans, the 1906 earthquake and fire, two World Wars, two World''s Fairs, two great bridges, the beatniks and hippies and New Left—a story that is so marvelous and wild that it must be true. A new afterword from the author in this updated third edition brings The City into the twenty-first century—a time just as hectic, experimental, and opportunistic as its rambunctious past.

A guide for landowners, conservationists, and youth group leaders on how to work with (rather than against) the wildness of the land.

Fifty years of deep hanging out in California''s Indian country Writer and publisher Malcolm Margolin has been "deep hanging out"--or immersing himself in a social, informal way--in California''s Indian country since the 1970s. This volume collects thirty articles, introductions, and other pieces he wrote about California''s diverse Indian country (well over one hundred tribes), drawn mainly from the quarterly magazine he cofounded in 1987, News from Native California. He shares with his readers the experiences, knowledge, and cultural renewal that California Indians have generously shared with him, often after years of friendship, from the erection of a ceremonial enclosure in Northern California--built to fall apart within a generation so that the knowledge of how to construct one is always current--to a visit by aboriginal Hawaiians in diplomatic recognition of native Southern Californian tribes. He draws on both archives and interviews with elders in longer reports about leadership traditions, pedagogical techniques, and conservation practices in various parts of the state--fascinating glimpses into worldviews very different from those of contemporary America. Filled with insight and affection, as well as some of the most gorgeous writing, Deep Hanging Out will appeal both to newcomers and to those whose roots and hearts reside in the state''s Indian country.

Recognition of the 80th anniversary ofone of the great urban park systems in the country in a beautiful, illustrated small format gift edition

Nonfiction. Two hundred years ago herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for salmon and steelhead trout. From the vast marshlands, geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds "with a sound like that of a hurricane." This land of "inexpressible fertility," as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America. Clearly and accessibly written, uniquely alive and at the same time informed, this well-loved classic vividly recreates the lost world of the Indian people who lived here such a short time ago.

A celebration of the beauty of animals, the ingenuity of Native Californians, and the bonds that connect themThe first Europeans who came to California presumed they were setting foot on a land of untouched wilderness and untapped bounty. In fact, they had come to a place that had been carefully tended for thousands of years: by an inventive people who possessed an astonishing range of technological and zoological knowledge. Whether hunting sea lions along the jagged northwest coast, deer in the Sierra Foothills, or jack rabbits in the sage brush deserts of the Modoc Plateau, native hunters drew on a body of highly evolved religious beliefs and social customs that reflected a deep understanding of the ecologies in which they lived.With vivid black-and-white illustrations, photographs from the past and present, and first-hand accounts by Native Californians, Following the Game sweeps aside previous misconceptions about the simplicity of native hunting ways and provides instead a fresh perspective into a viable, complex, beautiful way of living, parts of which persist in California Indian culture today.