Guide to Catalina Island & California's Channel Islands
Author | : Chicki Mallan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1996-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780965130004 |
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Author | : Chicki Mallan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1996-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780965130004 |
Author | : Chicki Mallan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Channel Islands (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780918373182 |
Author | : Brian M. Fagan |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2001-09-27 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780071374644 |
Comprehensive and authoritative, this guide combines and updates two smaller, long-trusted regional books to provide seamless coverage of the entire California coast from just outside the Golden Gate Bridge to Mexico, with special attention given to the popular offshore islands between Point Conception and San Diego. Brian Fagan draws upon more than three decades of experience sailing those waters under all conditions to offer the definitive cruising guide for both sailors and powerboaters.
Author | : Chicki Mallan |
Publisher | : Moon Travel Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Channel Islands (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780918373755 |
This guidebook to California's Channel Islands for budget travellers gives historical, cultural and environmental commentary. It includes insider's information about recreational activities and local specialities.
Author | : Marla Daily |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 073859508X |
Every day, thousands of Southern California residents see the California Channel Islands on the horizon, yet few can name all eight. Santa Catalina Island, third largest, is by far the best known. It is the only island with a city, Avalon, where dozens of hotels, shops, and restaurants await visitors year-round. Three of the islands are owned by the US Navy: San Clemente, San Nicolas, and San Miguel. San Clemente and San Nicolas Islands are used for military training, naval weapons development, and missile testing; thus access is restricted. Five islands fall within the boundaries of Channel Islands National Park: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa Barbara Islands. Close to the mainland and yet worlds apart, scenic day trips and primitive camping opportunities are available on all five park islands. With neither stores nor modern conveniences, a trip to Channel Islands National Park is a step back in time.
Author | : Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0395069629 |
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author | : Bruce Wicklund |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederic Caire Chiles |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2015-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806149221 |
Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight islands is home to a biodiversity unrivaled anywhere on Earth. In addition, the Channel Islands reveal the complex geology and the natural and human history of this part of the world, from the first human probing of the continent we now call North America to modern-day ranchers, vineyardists, yachtsmen, and backpackers. Not far below the largely undisturbed surface of these islands are the traces of a California that flourished before historical time, vestiges of a complex forager culture originating with the first humans to cross the Bering Land Bridge and spread down the Pacific coast. This culture came to an end a mere 450 years ago with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, whose practices effectively depopulated the archipelago. The largely empty islands in turn attracted Anglo-American agriculturalists, including Frederic Caire Chiles’s own ancestors, who battled the elements to build empires based on cattle, sheep, wine, and wool. Today adventure tourism is the heart of the islands’ economy, with the late-twentieth-century formation of Channel Islands National Park, which opened five of the islands to the general public. For visitors and armchair travelers alike, this book weaves the strands of natural history, island ecology, and human endeavor to tell the Channel Islands’ full story.
Author | : John Michell |
Publisher | : Ingram |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2007-04-03 |
Genre | : Menhirs |
ISBN | : 9781906069032 |
A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.