Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City — Gary Kamiya

From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco comes a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city.

Gary Kamiya''s Cool Gray City of Love was a runaway hit, an award-winner, and a #1 bestseller. Now, he joins forces with iconic, bestselling illustrator Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before, Kamiya''s captivating narratives accompany Madonna''s masterful pen-and-ink drawings, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure.

Paul Madonna''s atmospheric illustrations will awe: be amazed by his astonishing wide-angle drawing for a jaw-dropping new perspective on the ""crookedest street in the world."" And Kamiya''s engaging prose, accompanying each image, offers fascinating vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of ""Dumptown,"" the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump.

Handsome and irresistible-much like the city it chronicles-Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed, personal, loving, informed portrait of a beloved city.