Catalina A to Z: A Glossary Guide to California's Island Jewel by Pat Maxwell Paperback Book

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Rent Catalina A to Z: A Glossary Guide to California's Island Jewel

Author: Pat Maxwell

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: History Press

Published: Jun 2014

Genre: History - United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)

Retail Price: $16.99

Pages: 128

Synopsis

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.

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