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Author : Elna S. Bakker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520021592
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.
Author : Elna Bakker,Gordy Slack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520907249
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.
Author : Elna S. Bakker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310550561
Author : Bruce Berger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0816519021
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.
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395069622
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.
Author : Carey McWilliams
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : 0879050071
Provides an overview of Southern California, discussing the history of the region, seasons, Native Americans, missions, folklore, culture, Hollywood, politics, and more.
Author : Theodore Henry Hittell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : California
ISBN : UCD:31175035179483
General history of California.
Author : Theodore Henry Hittell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : California
ISBN : UOM:39015027937054
General history of California from the early settlement to its growth as a state. Author used many archives no longer extant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : California
ISBN : CHI:082956871
Author : Todd J. Braje,Jon M. Erlandson,Torben C. Rick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442278585
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.
Author : Frank Wilson Blackmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : NYPL:33433081950820
Author : Frank Wilson Blackmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : OSU:32435024401119
Author : Anonim
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : California
ISBN : 9781603540056
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1770 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, American
ISBN : NYPL:33433003241175
Author : Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6NTM
