San Francisco - Hardcover

A lavishly illustrated celebration of San Franscisco takes readers on a visual tour of the city's most beautiful sights--the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, and Lombard Hill, among others.

Award-winning photojournalist Santi Visalli was born in Messina, Sicily, and has lived in the United States since 1959. His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times, as well as other leading magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Four of his photographs are in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's permanent collection.

Mr. Visalli was President of the Foreign Press Association of New York from 1993 to 1996. The title of Knight in the Order of Meriot of the Republic of Italy was bestowed on him in 1996. He curently lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California, resides in his native San Francisco and in Sacramento, and is the author of six books, including the series Americans and the California Dream. His writing has won him a Guggenheim Fellowship, Membership in the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society, and the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California.