The California Field Atlas

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#1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller
#10 SCIBA Best Seller

Winner the 2018 NCIBA Book of the Year Award (Regional Interest). This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and out of doors normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. In line with decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to remove darkness from the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the flora and fauna, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for instance, we imagine California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of natural world, keys that provide an explanation for natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, somewhat larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road commute companion and love letter to a place.

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