Catalina A to Z

Catalina A to Z
Author: Patricia Maxwell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614239789

Santa Catalina Island is one of the West Coast's great nearby escapes, an hour's boat ride from Los Angeles and Long Beach for one million annual tourists. The island's seventy-six square miles contain two communities--Avalon and Two Harbors--and extremely rugged seashores and interior wild lands. Here, the history has been carved by pirates, smugglers, prospectors and squatters and set down by seafaring scribes and Hollywood fabricators. The facts have been massaged by the ebb and flow of time and scattered like sun-baked rocks from a beachcomber's kick. Co-authors Patricia Maxwell, Bob Rhein and Jerry Roberts have collected Catalina's basic facts and lore into a quick reference that's as easily accessible as the most charming of California's Channel Islands.

Catalina Island

Catalina Island
Author: Pedersen, Jeannine L.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004-08-11
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439614326

Throughout its history, the 76-square-mile island of Catalina has played host to Native Americans, smugglers, otter hunters, ranchers, miners, entrepreneurs, vacationers, movie stars, and nature enthusiasts. William Wrigley Jr. (of chewing-gum fame) bought the island in 1919 and later constructed the recognizable casino building, which was never used for gambling but did become one of the best-known ballrooms in America. In the 1970s, the Wrigley family deeded 88 percent of the island to the Catalina Island Conservancy, which protects the natural state of the island and her inhabitants. Today nearly one million tourists visit annually to take in the fishing, parasailing, glass-bottomed tour boating, scuba diving, cycling, camping, galleries, shopping, and dining.

A California Flora and Supplement

A California Flora and Supplement
Author: Philip A. Munz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 3207
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 0520317599

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Tucson Teddy Takes a Trip

Tucson Teddy Takes a Trip
Author: Dennis Seawright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
ISBN: 9780615759159

Tucson Teddy is an adventurous little bear who loves to travel and explore. In this book, Teddy visits beautiful Catalina Island and enjoys many of the exciting attractions that Catalina has to offer.

Supplement to A California Flora

Supplement to A California Flora
Author: Philip A. Munz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520336917

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Marine Natural Products

Marine Natural Products
Author: Paul J. Scheuer
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483271862

Marine Natural Products: Chemical and Biological Perspectives, Volume V focuses on the chemical and biological study of sponges. Chapters in the volume present papers discussing the various findings and researches on sponges. Topics discussed include a review on research on sponge metabolites; biosynthetic studies of marine organisms; steroid research on unicellular algae; structural organic chemistry of marine metabolites; and marine biopolymers. Marine biologists, biochemists, and pharmacologists will find the book a good reference material.