Cruising Guide to California Channel Islands [Paperback]

Brian Fagan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Western Marine Enterprises (November 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093003032X
• ISBN-13: 978-0930030322
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,528,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brian Fagan was born in England and studied archaeology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia, from 1959-1965. During six years in Zambia and one in East Africa, he was deeply involved in fieldwork on multidisciplinary African history and in monuments conservation. He came to the United States in 1966 and was Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1967 to 2004, when he became Emeritus.
Since coming to Santa Barbara, Brian has specialized in communicating archaeology to general audiences through lecturing, writing, and other media. He is regarded as one of the world's leading archaeological and historical writers and is widely respected popular lecturer about the past. His many books include three volumes for the National Geographic Society, including the bestselling Adventure of Archaeology. Other works include The Rape of the Nile, a classic history of archaeologists and tourists along the Nile, and four books on ancient climate change and human societies, Floods, Famines, and Emperors (on El Niños), The Little Ice Age, and The Long Summer, an account of warming and humanity since the Great Ice Age. His most recent climatic work describes the Medieval Warm Period: The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. His other books include Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society and Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World and Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age gave birth to the First Modern Humans. His recently published Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind extends his climatic research to the most vital of all resources for humanity.
Brian has been sailing since he was eight years old and learnt his cruising in the English Channel and North Sea. He has sailed thousands of miles in European waters, across the Atlantic, and in the Pacific. He is author of the Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California, which has been a widely used set of sailing directions since 1979. An ardent bicyclist, he lives in Santa Barbara with his life Lesley and daughter Ana.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable!, June 7, 2005

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This review is from: Cruising Guide to California Channel Islands (Paperback)

The information in this cruising guide is great regarding the different island anchorages. Fagan recommends particular anchorages for given weather conditions, and certain areas within these anchorages for best holding ground. He takes the guess-work out of determining the type of bottom. The only shortcoming is the photographs: they are sort of underexposed black and white images, which give a rather poor impression what the anchorages look like in real life. The descriptions and waypoints make up for this deficiency, for the most part. Overall, this is a thorough and accurate cruising guide that every sailor is well-advised to take with him or her on island trips.