Harold French: Press Agent for the Hills ~Biography of Contra Costa Hills Club Founder & East Bay Area Conservationist California Noel Siver

Title: Harold French: ''A Press Agent for the Hills

Author: Noel Siver

Description: Signed by author on title page. Softcover. Shows light handling. Minor soiling at top edge of front cover; rear cover has a quarter-sized blemish. Two pages with minor spots of soiling, else interior is clean. Many illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, facsimiles. Index and an extensive bibliography. vii + 249 pages. One institutional copy located on OCLC (San Francisco Public Library). Scarce.

Biography of avid hiker, Bay Area conservationist, activist, and founder of the Contra Costa Hills Club (CCHC), Harold French (1878-1962). French, a resident of Oakland, founded the CCHC in 1920 and campaigned extensively for the creation of a regional park system, realized with the founding of the East Bay Regional Park District in 1934. Includes material on his early career with the San Francisco Mint, examples of his correspondence with John Muir and Jack London, and descriptions of the founding and early activities of the CCHC, as well as of the many conservations campaigns in the East Bay which he was involved in over the years.

Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: [privately publsihed]
Year: 2020

ISBN: 0998298115

Keywords: Contra Costa Hills Club, Bay Area, Marin County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, East Bay, California, conservation, conservationists, East Bay Regional Park District,