Author: Gary E. MitrovichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979850103
Category : City Heights (San Diego, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
East of San Diego
Author: Gary E. MitrovichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979850103
Category : City Heights (San Diego, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Insiders' Guide® to San Diego
Author: Maribeth MellinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762755792
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
San Diego, California’s second largest city with 70 miles of beaches and a mild Mediterranean climate, is popular for visitors—temporary or permanent. Insiders’ Guide to San Diego is the quintessential and comprehensive source for travel and relocation information about this sprawling, spectacular Southern California city. Take advantage of the personal perspective of the local authors to gain detailed knowledge necessary to making the most of your experience. Now in its sixth edition, this fully updated and revised guide includes seven maps and 32 black-and-white photographs.
San Diego Noir
Author: Maryelizabeth HartPublisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Southern California is not all sun, sand, and surf in this gripping collection of noir tales from T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Maria Lima, and others. San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of the country’s most expensive home and resort real estate. Yet the city also houses a few items that aren’t actively promoted by the visitor’s bureau: a number of the country’s most corrupt politicians, border-related crimes, terrorists, and the occasional earthquakes. A noir feast! In the fifty-plus years since Raymond Chandler set Playback in Esmeralda, his name for La Jolla, the population has grown by more than a million, and crime has proliferated as well. San Diego of the past and the present offers the book’s contributors a rich selection of settings, from the cross on Mount Soledad to the piers of Ocean Beach, and perpetrators and victims from the residents of its wealthiest enclaves to the inhabitants of its segregated barrios. San Diego Noir includes stories by T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha C. Lawrence, Diane Clark & Astrid Bear, Debra Ginsberg, Morgan Hunt, Ken Kuhlken, Taffy Cannon, Don Winslow, Cameron Pierce Hughes, Lisa Brackmann, Gabriel R. Barillas, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Maria Lima. “When it’s done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. San Diego Noir, a new 15-story collection by some of the region’s best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune
Eastern San Diego County Resource Management Plan
Author: Take a Hike: San Diego County
Author: Priscilla ListerPublisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480825409
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Few places on the planet can boast the diversity of natural landscape found in San Diego County. From the enormous Anza-Borrego desert to the Peninsular Range of mountains to the coastal wetlands of the Pacific Ocean, the breadth of San Diego Countys environment is truly remarkable. Priscilla Lister, seasoned journalist, former newspaper columnist and avid hiker, guides others down 260 trails that offer beautiful scenery, physical challenges and an up-close experience with natural flora and fauna. Youll find trail directions as well as historical tales about the natives and pioneers who once hiked the region. She also identifies trees, wildflowers and birds youll find on every trail. Included with each entry are driving directions, mileage and difficulty of each hike, whether dogs or horses are allowed and information on how to download trail maps. Take a Hike: San Diego County is a comprehensive hiking guidebook that shares advice, tips, and tools that will entice exploration of one of Americas most diverse and beautiful regions.
Eastern San Diego County Resource Management Plan
Author: San Diego County Native Plants
Author: James LightnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endemic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The San Diego Tourist
Author: San Diego and Arizona Railway
Author: Reena DeutschPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738581484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) "The Impossible Railroad" because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier and driving force behind building this binational 148-mile rail connection to the east from San Diego, California, was businessman John D. Spreckels. Because of his perseverance, the jinxed 1907-1919 construction overcame a series of disasters, including the Mexican Revolution, a prolonged lawsuit, floods, World War I, labor shortages, a tunnel cave-in, and a lethal pandemic. Once up and running, the line was intermittently in and out of service and later sold and renamed the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. While "The Impossible Railroad" still faces constant challenges and partial closures, freight and trolley service currently operate on its right-of-way, and tourist excursions are offered at its Campo, California, depot.
Abandoned San Diego
Author: Jessica D. JohnsonPublisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634991049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Series statement from publisher's website.