Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
San Luis Unit, Central Valley Project, California
Author: San Luis Obispo County Wine: A World-Class History
Author: Libbie Agran and Heather Muran with the Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo CountyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467146293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In the mid-1800s, fortune seekers from around the world flocked to California, but not all of them ended up in the gold fields. Many settled in San Luis Obispo County, drawn by the Mediterranean climate perfect for planting a familiar crop: grapevines. Local viticulture originated with the Spanish Missions, but it blossomed with the influx of intrepid adventurers. Growers and winemakers like Pierre Dallidet, an immigrant who helped save the French wine industry, and Henry Ditmas and James Anderson, who were the first to plant Zinfandel grapes, established vineyards and set about crafting award-winning wine in the fertile soil of Central California. Join the experts at the Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo County as they share the unique stories of these legendary winemakers.
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
Author: Kathleen J. EdgarPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823958986
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The history of this California mission from its founding in 1772, through its development and use in serving the Chumash Indians, and its secularization and function today.
Good Night San Luis Obispo
Author: Jennifer KirnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781939502360
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Special Task Force Report on San Luis Unit
Author: Central Valley Project (Calif.). San Luis Unit. Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Thrive
Author: Dan BuettnerPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426205155
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In the first book to identify demographically proven "happiness hotspots" worldwide, researcher and explorer Buettner documents the happiest people on earth and reveals how we can create our own happy zones.
Cambria Century
Author: Stephen H. ProvostPublisher: Dragon Crown Books
ISBN: 9781949971224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
For a little village, a lot has happened in Cambria. It's on the road to Hearst Castle and the most scenic stretch of Highway 1, where you can see zebras roaming beside the freeway and elephant seals lounging in the sun. But it's also a destination in its own right, where a rare stand of Monterey pines meets the sea, and where dozens of lively shops and galleries lie nestled at the base of the green Santa Lucia foothills. Former Cambrian editor Stephen H. Provost takes you on a journey through the 20th century in Cambria, one of California's favorite places to relax, retire, and sometimes have a lively debate. Cambria Century is part of his Century Cities series, which he created to celebrate and preserve the history of midsized and smaller American cities from 1900 to 1999. It contains a wealth of anecdotes, some 150 contemporary and historic images, and details of familiar stories you thought you knew, all in an easy-to-read timeline format. Find out about the quicksilver mines and old saloons that made Cambria part of the wild, wild West. Learn about rodeos of the past and the birth of Pinedorado, Cambria's annual Labor Day weekend celebration. Visit San Simeon, at the doorstep to Hearst Castle, and Harmony, the town that's had 18 residents for as long as anyone can remember. Did you know Cambria once had its own movie house and (despite an aversion to national chains), a tiny park on Main Street, and an A&W drive-in? Cambria Century will take you to William Randolph Hearst's castle and Art Beal's anti-castle overlooking the West Village. You'll return to the Toy Soldier Factory, the Pewter Plough Playhouse, the Chuck Wagon, Exotic Gardens, Lyons' Red & White store, Comozzi's, the Rigdon Building, Bank of America, and the Bluebird Inn. And that's just the beginning. The pioneer years of the 19th century boom and recent developments in the new millennium hold many tales of their own. Cambria Century tells the story of what happened in between.
Fukushima
Author: David LochbaumPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620971186
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
“A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, with award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan to give us the first definitive account of the 2011 disaster that led to the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. Four years have passed since the day the world watched in horror as an earthquake large enough to shift the Earth's axis by several inches sent a massive tsunami toward the Japanese coast and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing the reactors' safety systems to fail and explosions to reduce concrete and steel buildings to rubble. Even as the consequences of the 2011 disaster continue to exact their terrible price on the people of Japan and on the world, Fukushima addresses the grim questions at the heart of the nuclear debate: could a similar catastrophe happen again, and—most important of all—how can such a crisis be averted?
Wild Flowers of San Luis Obispo, California
Author: David J. KeilPublisher:
ISBN: 9781615845927
Category : Wild flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
"This field guide displays wildflowers that grow within about five miles of the City of San Luis Obispo... contains over 290 plant species."--P. 3.
San Luis Obispo
Author: Janet Penn FranksPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738529271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
San Luis Obispo was founded in 1772 as a mission in the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains on California's Central Coast. The city that grew from a rustic pueblo, with its scattering of adobe buildings, today has a wealth of architectural styles. From the simple barns of the outlying farm community, to the grand hotels and lively saloons kept busy by the Southern Pacific Railroad depot, and back full circle to the Mission Revival style edifices of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo's architecture has echoed its history. Motor travel brought the world's first motel to this half-way point on California's historic Highway 101, and the famously zany tourist attraction, the Madonna Inn.