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The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

Author : Torben C. Rick
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770315
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island written by Torben C. Rick and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.

The Treasure of San Miguel Island

Author : William H. White
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612043348
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Treasure of San Miguel Island written by William H. White and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure hunters brave dangerous Pacific reefs as they try to unearth long lost treasures from shipwrecks.

The Legendary King of San Miguel

Author : Elizabeth Sherman Lester
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legendary King of San Miguel written by Elizabeth Sherman Lester and published by McNally & Loftin Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

San Miguel

Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408830701
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book San Miguel written by T. Coraghessan Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author, a haunting historical novel about three generations of women living on a tiny, desolate island.

The Imagined Island

Author : Pedro L. San Miguel
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807876992
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Imagined Island written by Pedro L. San Miguel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these two nations are the result of imaginary contrasts between the two nations drawn by historians, intellectuals, and writers. Covering five centuries and key intellectual figures from each country, San Miguel bridges literature, history, and ethnography to locate the origins of racial, ethnic, and national identity on the island. He finds that Haiti was often portrayed by Dominicans as "the other--first as a utopian slave society, then as a barbaric state and enemy to the Dominican Republic. Although most of the Dominican population is mulatto and black, Dominican citizens tended to emphasize their Spanish (white) roots, essentially silencing the political voice of the Dominican majority, San Miguel argues. This pioneering work in Caribbean and Latin American historiography, originally published in Puerto Rico in 1997, is now available in English for the first time.

San Miguel Island

Author : Lois W. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book San Miguel Island written by Lois W. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

San Miguel Island

Author : Betsy Lester Roberti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886342095
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book San Miguel Island written by Betsy Lester Roberti and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395069629
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The California Channel Islands

Author : Marla Daily
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 073859508X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The California Channel Islands written by Marla Daily and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

San Miguel

Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147509750
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book San Miguel written by T.C. Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant and acclaimed New York Times bestseller from the author of The Women and When the Killing’s Done Just off the coast of Southern California, two families—one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s—come to desolate, windswept San Miguel Island in search of self-reliance, freedom, and a new start in their lives. Both Marantha Waters and Elise Lester strive to help their war veteran husbands pursue their dreams but must themselves grapple with the more nebulous hardships of raising a family in brutal isolation. Boyle “skillfully captures that tension-filled quietude” (The New Times Book Review) in this lyrical, intimate, and unforgettable novel.

Islands through Time

Author : Todd J. Braje
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442278587
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Islands through Time written by Todd J. Braje and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the remarkable history of one of the jewels of the US National Park system California’s Northern Channel Islands, sometimes called the American Galápagos and one of the jewels of the US National Park system, are a located between 20 and 44 km off the southern California mainland coast. Celebrated as a trip back in time where tourists can capture glimpses of California prior to modern development, the islands are often portrayed as frozen moments in history where ecosystems developed in virtual isolation for tens of thousands of years. This could not, however, be further from the truth. For at least 13,000 years, the Chumash and their ancestors occupied the Northern Channel Islands, leaving behind an archaeological record that is one of the longest and best preserved in the Americas. From ephemeral hunting and gathering camps to densely populated coastal villages and Euro-American and Chinese historical sites, archaeologists have studied the Channel Island environments and material culture records for over 100 years. They have pieced together a fascinating story of initial settlement by mobile hunter-gatherers to the development of one of the world’s most complex hunter-gatherer societies ever recorded, followed by the devastating effects of European contact and settlement. Likely arriving by boat along a “kelp highway,” Paleocoastal migrants found not four offshore islands, but a single super island, Santarosae. For millennia, the Chumash and their predecessors survived dramatic changes to their land- and seascapes, climatic fluctuations, and ever-evolving social and cultural systems. Islands Through Time is the remarkable story of the human and ecological history of California’s Northern Channel Islands. We weave the tale of how the Chumash and their ancestors shaped and were shaped by their island homes. Their story is one of adaptation to shifting land- and seascapes, growing populations, fluctuating subsistence resources, and the innovation of new technologies, subsistence strategies, and socio-political systems. Islands Through Time demonstrates that to truly understand and preserve the Channel Islands National Park today, archaeology and deep history are critically important. The lessons of history can act as a guide for building sustainable strategies into the future. The resilience of the Chumash and Channel Island ecosystems provides a story of hope for a world increasingly threatened by climate change, declining biodiversity, and geopolitical instability.

Island Legacies

Author : Douglas Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Island Legacies written by Douglas Livingston and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road to Wellville

Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140167188
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Wellville written by T.C. Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too. So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."

California's Channel Islands

Author : Frederic Caire Chiles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149221
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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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.

The Channel Islands of California

Author : Charles Frederick Holder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Channel Islands of California written by Charles Frederick Holder and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treasure of San Miguel Island

Author : William H. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Treasure of San Miguel Island written by William H. White and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure hunters brave dangerous Pacific reefs as they try to unearth long lost treasures from shipwrecks.

Certain Artifacts From San Miguel Island, California; Vol. 7 No. 4

Author : George G (George Gustav) 1874 Heye
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013756771
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Certain Artifacts From San Miguel Island, California; Vol. 7 No. 4 written by George G (George Gustav) 1874 Heye and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.