Channel Islands Of California A Book For The Angler Sportsman And Tourist

Author : Charles Frederick Holder
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330215128
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Channel Islands of California a Book for the Angler, Sportsman, and Tourist written by Charles Frederick Holder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Channel Islands of California a Book for the Angler, Sportsman, and Tourist It will probably be very difficult to find any one in America or England, fond of true manly sports, who has not heard of the leaping tuna and its home, the Channel Islands of the Pacific Coast, which, like chalices of emeralds, are strung along the coast of California approximately from latitude 31° to 35°. The region corresponds to that of the Mediterranean - Southern France, Spain, Italy, and Cairo - and to Charleston and Northern Florida on the Atlantic Coast. It has all the appearance, with its palms and semitropic verdure, of the tropics, yet it has not a tropical climate, the winters being cool and bracing, and the summers cooler than any seashore region on the Atlantic Coast south of Nova Scotia. What Madeira, the Riviera, and the Azores are to Europe, the Channel Islands of California have become to the United States, a great national playground visited annually by an army of pleasure-seekers and travellers not only from this country, but from all over the world - a contingent which will be augmented many fold as years go by, when the Isthmus Canal is opened, and yachts and other vessels can easily reach this coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.