San Francisco

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SAN FRANCISCO
A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY
64 Pages of Color Photography
Perched on the hills above the often mist-enshrouded Golden Gate Bridge lies the colourful and cosmopolitan city of San Francisco. It appears as a mass of white buildings, crowned by several skyscrapers, that cling to the hillsides and sweep down to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
The city dates from 1776 and it was a trading post in 1846, when it was captured by United States forces during a war with Mexico. In 1906 an earthquake almost completely destroyed it but it was subsequently rebuilt into one of the loveliest cities in the world. One of San Francisco's greatest natural assets is its fine natural harbour, and it is a busy port with strong trading links with Australia and the Far East.
San Francisco has twenty-one hills plied by the famous cable-cars. Nob Hill, where in earlier days rich people lived in ostentatious mansions, is probably the best known. Today the mansions have gone, and in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SAN FRANCISCO
A PICTURE BOOK TO REMEMBER HER BY
64 Pages of Color Photography
Perched on the hills above the often mist-enshrouded Golden Gate Bridge lies the colourful and cosmopolitan city of San Francisco. It appears as a mass of white buildings, crowned by several skyscrapers, that cling to the hillsides and sweep down to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
The city dates from 1776 and it was a trading post in 1846, when it was captured by United States forces during a war with Mexico. In 1906 an earthquake almost completely destroyed it but it was subsequently rebuilt into one of the loveliest cities in the world. One of San Francisco's greatest natural assets is its fine natural harbour, and it is a busy port with strong trading links with Australia and the Far East.
San Francisco has twenty-one hills plied by the famous cable-cars. Nob Hill, where in earlier days rich people lived in ostentatious mansions, is probably the best known. Today the mansions have gone, and in their place there are towering hotels and apartment blocks. At the bottom of the hill is Union Square, where elegant and sophisticated shops are situated and close by is the fascinating China Town area, which has the largest Chinese settlement outside the Orient and which contains some of the finest restaurants in America.
It is said that many people leave their hearts in San Francisco. The superb colour photographs of the beautiful city in this lavishly illustrated book will surely make it easy to understand why. Vissza