Down by the Bay

Matthew Morse Booker is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford and leads the Between the Tides project at Stanford's Spatial History Lab, mapping San Francisco Bay's dynamic tidal margin.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Between the Tides: Layers of History in San Francisco Bay 1. Rising Tide 2. Ghost Tidelands 3. Reclaiming the Delta 4. An Edible Bay 5. From Real Estate to Refuge Conclusion: Rising Tides? Notes Bibliography Index

"Booker gives the city a fresh face; the familiar becomes strange and wonderful... Down by the Bay is a genuine pearl in the sea of contemporary environmental writing." -- Jonah Raskin San Francisco Chronicle "The history of San Francisco is not only the story of a great world city, it's also the story of a great body of water that both supported and was impacted by rapid urban growth. In his natural (and human) history of San Francisco Bay, author Matthew Morse Booker focuses on waterfront and tidal wetlands. It is there that decades of human activity, such as dredging and upriver hydraulic mining, have reshaped, polluted and irrevocably altered the marine environment." -- Pete Basofin Sacramento Bee