Join best-selling author Gary Kamiya on a rollicking (and stunning) walk through 25,000 years of San Francisco history. As you follow Gary’s path forward in time, you’ll hide from mammoths and walk in the soft footsteps of the area’s first humans. You’ll watch Chinese immigrants play cards in an historic square, then go back in time to meet the ‘Father of San Francisco,’ the first guy to build a house there.

You'll wander through the flea-bitten, forgotten outpost that, when the Gold Rush hit, became the crazy, instant city of San Francisco. You’ll feel your feet sinking into the muddy streets and hear the soundscape of the time. Prostitutes will beckon to you from shadowy corners, gunshots will make you jump. You’ll learn the Turkey Trot.

And then, you’ll emerge into the sunlight of Telegraph Hill (and the 20th century). A tasty Italian sandwich in North Beach; Coit Tower framed by a narrow alley and then a visit to the WPA-era paintings inside. And all along the way, you’ll meet the waves of newcomers who’ve made and remade this city, decade after decade, and gain a deeper understanding of how this fabled city became what it is.