Hans-Peter Jensen Knihy

San Diego on My Mind celebrates the beauty and spirit of this sunny city and its people with striking color photography by Stephen Simpson and an engaging text by Peter Jensen, both of San Diego. Select quotations by notable San Diegans and others who love the city-including Raymond Chandler, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Max Miller-also provide insight into why so many people choose to call this seaside mecca home.

Internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer Art Wolfe has long had a love affair with California. Along its coastline he finds iconic vistas and light playing upon water in ways that crystallize the very idea of West Coast. In this luscious book, he explores all of the natural regions of the state including the alpine lakes of the high Sierra, the ancient forests, and the uniquely abundant and colorful desert. Wolfe showcases a California that is familiar — the craggy peaks of Yosemite, the fog-caressed rolling grass hills of Marin, the arid high-plains of Owens Valley — and yet remarkably new as seen through his expert lens.

Shows the area's beaches, bays, homes, office buildings, zoo, highways, fountains, historic buildings, museums, parks, and tuna fleets