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Author : Adelaide LeMert Doran
Publisher : Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pieces of Eight Channel Islands written by Adelaide LeMert Doran and published by Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic Caire Chiles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149221
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book California's Channel Islands written by Frederic Caire Chiles and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : B. Lowsley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Coinages of the Channel Islands written by B. Lowsley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By B. Lowsley: Dive into the rich numismatic history of the Channel Islands with Lowsley's detailed exploration. This book offers a comprehensive look at the coins that have circulated in these islands, providing readers with insights into their historical and cultural significance.
Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239180
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Natural History of the Islands of California written by Allan A. Schoenherr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.
Author : Patricia Maxwell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239789
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Catalina A to Z written by Patricia Maxwell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Gherini
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153792
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Santa Cruz Island written by John Gherini and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising from the waters of the Pacific off the southern California Coast, Santa Cruz Island captures the imagination. Once home to a large Chumash population, in the nineteenth century it became a self-sufficient island rancho. As with all islands of beauty and size, it attracted people from the coastline. But as author John Gherini tells us in his prologue: The attractions of the island, however, routinely led people into conflict, wrapping it in a shroud like its morning fog. The modern history of the island would witness the passion to own it, to protect it, to use it and to fight over it. For the first time a thorough history of Santa Cruz Island's tumultuous past is provided. In pre-Columbian times it was a source of wealth to the indigenous peoples—the place where they made their shell bead money. During the Spanish-Mexican period it was a smuggler's haven, where fur hunters avoided the customs officials. As a land grant, it passed through the hands of Andres Castillero, William E. Barron, and eventually was purchased by Justinian Caire. The island flourished under the direction of Caire and his family. It was a secluded paradise off the Santa Barbara Coast, with extensive sheep and cattle holdings, as well as an esteemed winery. Seeds of conflict were sown by Justinian Caire's will when the island was divided between family members. The Stantons, Rossis, Gherinis, the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy all were involved over time. The tortured legal and family disputes are recounted for the first time in this important new work. Island ranching, hunting and recreation, and environmental challenges are described in detail. Recent historical events involving the establishment of the Channel Islands National Park are explored, as well. A handsome volume with notes, appendix, bibliography and index. Embellished with thirty-six photographs and maps from the author's family archives.
Author : Briton Cooper Busch
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773506107
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The War Against the Seals written by Briton Cooper Busch and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates on the fur seals of the Bering Sea and the harp seals of the Newfoundland hunt. Reveals the consequences of an industry's killing of more than 50,000,000 seals in a century and a half.
Author : Jorge A. Vargas
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004206205
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Mexico and the Law of the Sea written by Jorge A. Vargas and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico and the Law of the Sea: Contributions and Compromises examines Mexico’s legal work at the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea; its involvement at the regional Latin American meetings of Montevideo, Lima and Santo Domingo; and its current domestic legislation, in particular the Federal Oceans Act of 1986.
Author : Michael James Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Unique Plants and Animals of the Northern Channel Islands, California written by Michael James Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Brocklesby
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494163
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Channel Islands Book of Days written by Mark Brocklesby and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking you through the year day by day, The Channel Islands Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the islands. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of the Channel Island's archives and covering the social, criminal, political, religious, industrial and sporting history of the region, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Works written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Corinne Heyning Laverty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607817291
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (172 download)
Download or read book America's Galapagos written by Corinne Heyning Laverty and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Laverty has researched and written about the Channel Islands Biological Survey conducted just prior to World War II off the coast of southern California and aborted due to the war and island location. The manuscript illuminates the scientific process and delves into the realities and difficulties of scientific fieldwork in the late 1930s. It also tells the behind-the-scenes story of the work of a natural history museum. The eight Channel Islands each support different ecosystems, both flora and fauna, and human histories. Five of the eight islands comprise Channel Islands National Park. The expedition researchers--John Adams Comstock, Art Woodward, Jack von Bloeker Jr., and Don Meadows--hoped to achieve the exhilaration and recognition from new discoveries but were thwarted by the war and their inability to complete and publish the survey data. However, early archaeology done on the islands, some by the biological survey crew, initiated on-going work there. Prehistoric sites found on the islands have less pothunting and destruction than those on the mainland, hence they are more productive for addressing numerous questions. Today, they are helping to answer questions about the routes and timing for the peopling of the Americas"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jane Mary Resnick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Feral Goat Foraging and Vegetation Changes on San Clemente Island, California written by Jane Mary Resnick and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Archives of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
