Windle's History of Santa Catalina Island (and Guide)
Author : Ernest Windle
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
ISBN :
Catalina Island
Author : Pedersen, Jeannine L.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2004-08-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439614326
Book Description
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.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395069629
Book Description
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.
Santa Catalina Island, California Usa
Author : Leon Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9780463534199
Book Description
Natural History of the Islands of California
Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520239180
Book Description
A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.
Chicago Cubs
Author : Jim Vitti
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738577951
Book Description
It's not quite like today's spring training: one might find a rookie ballplayer (nicknamed Hack) uprooting trees with his bare hands or a future president of the United States getting into a barroom brawl with some grizzled sportswriters. The team was the Chicago Cubs, and the place was Santa Catalina Island-through the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, and World War II. William Wrigley owned both island and ballclub; from 1921 to 1951, they came together. There were movie stars, like Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. There were grand steamships, big bands, hopes and dreams, and World Series rings. It's Chicago Cubs: Baseball on Catalina Island, and it's a trip like no other.
Boating and Diving Catalina Island
Author : Bruce Wicklund
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN :
Book Description
Between Two Harbors
Author : Doug Oudin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491700648
Book Description
Catalina Island the name conjures images of a pristine tropical island. Located twenty-six miles off the coast of Southern California, Catalina Island is known as the island of romance for good reason. A popular destination for boaters, fishermen, and tourists, it's a recreational mecca at sea a place where people come to escape from the reality of urban life. Boasting 86,000 square miles of unspoiled and undeveloped natural beauty, Catalina is an island paradise with wild animals, surrounded by an ocean teeming with fish. For thirty-two years, Charles Douglas Doug Oudin lived a fantasy life on this secluded oasis. As the former harbormaster, he saw it all harrowing storms, dramatic ocean rescues, traumatic accidents, and the tragic death of actress Natalie Wood. Encounters with sharks, buffalo, wild boar, and even a sea serpent are just a few of the strange and unique experiences he had while living on the island. Now, in this memoir, he shares his story. For those who know and love Catalina and those who have always wanted to visit Between Two Harbors reveals a glimpse of what life on the island is really like.
Los Angeles in the 1930s
Author : WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520268830
Book Description
Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.
A Natural History of California
Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 1992-12-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520909915
Book Description
In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state.
