Entries for date "2013"

March 21, 2013 - Kepler's Books: Surviving the Shark

Join Jonathan and Margaret Kathrein at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, CA Thursday, March 21, 7:30 p.m. Surviving the Shark: How a Brutal Great White Attack Turned a Surfer into a Dedicated Defender of Sharks With special guests: Marine biologist, Wallace "J" Nichols, and photographer David McGuire, who will screen…

California Coastal Trail Whole-Coast Hikers

1911-1912 J. Smeaton Chase (1864 - 1923). Not really a hiker, an English immigrant and author, Smeaton Chase, rode the coast on horseback in three trips spread between 1911 and 1912. A book, California Coast Trails, describing who he met and what he saw was published in 1913. Now reprinted…