Ghost Towns of Northern California: Your Guide to Ghost Towns and Historic Mining Camps

By Philip Varney, John Drew and Susan Drew

Varney has mastered the art of writing books on ghost towns of the West, having authored such guides as Ghost Towns of Colorado and Southern California's Best Ghost Towns. In his latest volume, he once again combines the elements of an interesting narrative blending the personal with the historical with excellent photographs that provide a glimpse of both the past and the present.

Varney also includes the necessary tourist information pertaining to museums, tours, maps, and directions. The result is an outstanding travel guide to northern California's 50 deserted mining towns, plus the "ghost prison" of Alcatraz and a couple of Chinese fishing villages in the San
Francisco Bay area, that also serves as a good supplement to books on the gold rush.

Recommended for all public libraries in California and for larger libraries in the rest of the country.

Paperback - 160 pages 
(May 2001) 
Dimensions (in inches):  0.47 x 11.00 x 8.54 

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