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@bob thank you for this review. i had the same expectation of an under-supported polemic, and had i picked this up without knowing it got meaty, i would have thrown it back in a couple of chapters.

Remarkable black-and-white photographs of structures reduced to rubble by the temblor and subsequent fire.. As a map geek, I would have liked more maps, but the endpapers are large maps of the shaken and burned area.

The only guidebook I had found that covered Point Reyes in any detail. A new edition was published in 2022.

Packed with photos of the beautiful Palau de la Música Catalana, this is my favorite keepsake from an early noughties Barcelona trip. Brief descriptive text in Catalan, Spanish, and English mostly lets the pictures speak for themselves.

This and a prior edition are the only books I've found to cover Mt. Tam properly, with detailed terrain and history discussions as well as clear maps. Printed on heavy, glossy stock, it's a bit heavy to carry on a major trek. But no other book I've found serves me as well.

I threw away most of my travel books from before the pandemic. This 2016 guide is one of the few I kept.

Much of this book is fascinating, if you're a geek old enough to remember BBSes. As hacker groups go, Cult of the Dead Cow was likely among the most ethical. But the handful of brilliant fools ended up solidly in the establishment — at Facebook and Yahoo, at DOD and the NSA, or at firms contracting for them. It's so common as to seem inevitable: an idea that starts in a garage ends up monetizing by spreading hate or spying on you.