Can’t join us live? Your ticket will give you access to the recording for 30 days following the event.

Plus: IN-PERSON SIGNING! Obi will sign copies of The Coasts of California at Kepler's on Saturday, June 11 from noon to one o'clock. We recommend purchasing a copy of the book in advance (please select Plaza Pickup) as stock will go quickly!

We encourage you to join with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations.

In his signature style fusing science with art and pure poetic reverie, painter-poet and naturalist Obi Kaufmann presents an epic new work, The Coasts of California.

With hundreds of watercolor maps and illustrations, Kaufmann invites a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline, as well as an expansive, detailed walk down the California Coastal Trail.

Since his first book The California Field Atlas was published to wide acclaim in 2017, becoming a #1 San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller and winning a California Book Award for Notable Contribution to Publishing, Obi's wonder and watercolors have enthralled and educated nature lovers in The Forests of California and The State of Water.

Like all of his books, The Coasts of California is as much a guide as an inspiration. Join Kepler's for a special event with the author as we explore not just the land around us, famous worldwide for its wildness and diversity, but also as we learn a sense of scale here, a sense of self, and how to see.

Photo of Obi Kaufmann courtesy of the author