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San Francisco

"San Francisco has a long and interesting story, from the early days of the gold rush to today. Some things about this city do not change - the white fog, the beautiful old houses, and the wonderful Golden Gate Bridge. " (p. 39)




     Have you ever been to San Francisco? As many people know, San Francisco is one of the famous cities in USA. For example, the Golden Gate Bridge which the picture of this book's cover shows is very famous around the world, so many people visit there every year. Food culture is also amusing and I want to eat clam chowder wrapped it in bread.

     In this book, many kinds of things are introduced such as history, popular spots, and sources of entertainment of San Francisco. Although there are a lot of beautiful buildings now, San Francisco was experienced a big earthquake, which was one of the worst one at that time. After that, most of the buildings collapsed and many people living there then also died. However, San Francisco got over the painful experience and returned a new face in order to get strong support from many other people. Then, the city is attracting visitors now.

     There is one more viewpoint why San Francisco draws many people. That is because there are more exciting places than in other places. As I showed, Golden Gate Bridge is very famous and especially, the scenery with the sun behind it or the fog half over it are artistic and fantastic. In addition, nature is also wonderful. The Golden Gate Park is an example of it. In there, people find not only big fountains, tall trees, and beautiful garden with flowers in every color, but also big wild animals. In other words, all the people can enjoy nature directly, so they are attracted San Francisco.

     This book is in the Oxford Bookworms series and it is a non-fiction story. That is why, you can understand introductory San Francisco by reading the book. If you are interested in beautiful buildings, nature, food culture, or entertainments related to USA, I recommend you read this book at first and recognize a city of San Francisco! Probably, you must be fascinated and you will start to think that it is worth visiting.


Hardy-Gould, Janet. (2012). San Francisco. England: Oxford University Press

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