San Francisco

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The symbol that distinguishes this series of books is a stylization of the Chinese character for beauty, the theme that underlies each volume in This Beautiful World. Excellent full-color photographs accompany an authoritative yet easily readable text; each book will open up new, fascinating horizons to the armchair or seasoned traveler as well as the generál reader. The titles on the back flap are just a sample of the peoples, places, and arts encompassed. San Francisco: The key to San Francisco is variety. The city's hilltops are never remote from the sea, and brilliant sunshine alternates with bracing ocean breezes and chilling fogs. In every sense a modern, progressive city, San Francisco still treasures its colorful and vigorous past: the most comfortable interiors lie behind the freshly painted elegance of the Victorian houses; chandeliers and polished wood grace many of the excellent restaurants; antique cable cars still rattle over the hills, soon to exist beside the most... Tovább

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The symbol that distinguishes this series of books is a stylization of the Chinese character for beauty, the theme that underlies each volume in This Beautiful World. Excellent full-color photographs accompany an authoritative yet easily readable text; each book will open up new, fascinating horizons to the armchair or seasoned traveler as well as the generál reader. The titles on the back flap are just a sample of the peoples, places, and arts encompassed. San Francisco: The key to San Francisco is variety. The city's hilltops are never remote from the sea, and brilliant sunshine alternates with bracing ocean breezes and chilling fogs. In every sense a modern, progressive city, San Francisco still treasures its colorful and vigorous past: the most comfortable interiors lie behind the freshly painted elegance of the Victorian houses; chandeliers and polished wood grace many of the excellent restaurants; antique cable cars still rattle over the hills, soon to exist beside the most modern rapid transit system. The San Franciscans themselves constitute the basic ingredient in the variety. From every land and culture, they brought their own cuisines and customs and characters. Just a few blocks from the bright lights of Chinatown, one can hear Italian opera, flamenco guitar or Greek bou^oukia, and delight in every nation's cooking. San Francisco's variety is inexhaustible, and, most important, it is its way of life. Vissza