The Island Of California
DOWNLOAD
Download The Island Of California PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Island Of California book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Island Of California
DOWNLOAD
Author : Dora Polk
language : en
Publisher: Bison Books
Release Date : 1995
The Island Of California written by Dora Polk and has been published by Bison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
"Polk weaves threads from history, literature, mythology, cartography, and geography into a tapestry attesting the durability of the myth."-A. J. R. Russell-Wood, Choice. To early explorers and geographers California represented a terrestrial paradise. It was Atlantis, Arcadia, Avalon, El Dorado, the Garden of Eden, the Land of Milk and Honey, the Pleasure Dome of Kublai Khan. It was always a magnet for dreamers. In this fascinating book Dora Beale Polk examines the dreams and myths that influenced the discovery and exploration of California. Throughout, Polk treats the long-held concept of California as an island, going back to medieval lore that filled an unknown ocean with rich, mysterious ideal islands. Columbus carried the lore to the New World, expecting to find islands teeming with gold, pearls, fabulous creatures, and Amazon women. Cortis was led by the "romance of the islands." Balboa, Cabrillo, Drake, Ascensisn, Kino, and many others entered into the making of the island myth. The discoveries and explorations of all the major figures are traced and their reports analyzed as they relate to California's geography and to the dreams overlaying it. Dora Beale Polk is a professor of English at California State University at Long Beach. She has published popular suspense novels and poetry as well as scholarly works.
Southern California
DOWNLOAD
Author : Carey McWilliams
language : en
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Release Date : 1973
Southern California written by Carey McWilliams and has been published by Gibbs Smith this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.
Provides an overview of Southern California, discussing the history of the region, seasons, Native Americans, missions, folklore, culture, Hollywood, politics, and more.
Natural History Of The Islands Of California
DOWNLOAD
Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-07-10
Natural History Of The Islands Of California written by Allan A. Schoenherr and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-10 with History categories.
A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.
An Island Called California
DOWNLOAD
Author : Elna S. Bakker
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1971
An Island Called California written by Elna S. Bakker and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Nature categories.
Bakker's classic of ecological science now includes three new chapters on Southern California which make the book more useful than ever. Striking new photographs illustrate the diversity of life, climate, and geological formation.
Southern California Country
DOWNLOAD
Author : Carey McWilliams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Southern California Country written by Carey McWilliams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with California, Southern categories.
Provides an overview of Southern California, discussing the history of the region, seasons, Native Americans, missions, folklore, culture, Hollywood, politics, and more.
An Island Called California
DOWNLOAD
Author : Elna Bakker
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
An Island Called California written by Elna Bakker and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Nature categories.
Bakker’s classic of ecological science now includes three new chapters on Southern California which make the book more useful than ever. Striking new photographs illustrate the diversity of life, climate, and geological formation.
Catalina A To Z A Glossary Guide To California S Island Jewel
DOWNLOAD
Author : Pat Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Release Date : 2014-06-24
Catalina A To Z A Glossary Guide To California S Island Jewel written by Pat Maxwell and has been published by History Press Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with History categories.
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.
California S Channel Islands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Frederic Caire Chiles
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-01-20
California S Channel Islands written by Frederic Caire Chiles and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-20 with History categories.
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.
Almost An Island
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bruce Berger
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1998
Almost An Island written by Bruce Berger and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Travel categories.
Eight hundred miles long, Baja California is the remotest region of the Sonoran desert, a land of volcanic cliffs, glistening beaches, fantastical boojum trees, and some of the greatest primitive murals in the Western Hemisphere. In this book, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this extraordinary place, enriching his account with the peninsula's history, its politics, and its probable future--rendering a striking panorama of this land so close to the United States, so famous and so little known.
When California Was An Island
DOWNLOAD
Author : Barbara Haas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
When California Was An Island written by Barbara Haas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Fiction categories.