Where the Road Begins is the story of early pioneers of Big Sur California, an isolated piece of coastline on the West coast of the country's most populous state. Why is Big Sur not overrun with people and development? It's a matter of uniquie history and geography, but the greatest credit goes to the people who live there. This book tells the story of the people, who from the earliest days, established a pattern of stewardship that has resisted fraghmentation, speculation and exploitation.This hardcover jewel tells the story of the Big Sur caretakers laced with beautiful photographs of one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world.

Where the Road Begins: The Saga of Big Sur's Pioneer Families

Peter Gray Scott

Central Coast Books

Cayucos CA resident and photographer Sam Peck has produced a beautiful book featuring scenes of the wild coast of San Luis Obispo County. His full page photographs capture the capricious moods and theatrical light of this wild shore.

Coastal Zen: California's Wild Central Coast

Sam Peck

From his "Garlic Hill" neighborhood in Monterey, young "Petru" Cutino sees a rough and ready waterfront community far different from that found today, a commercial fishing community in which the Old World traditions of its Sicilian immigrants dictate all aspects of a young man's life. The era chronicled is 1938 to 1951. Cannery Row is in its heyday and Alvarado Street is a salty amalgam of marine supply stores, Mexican bars, pool halls, and tiny Mom-And-Pop diners. Cutino's riotous stories, often told in "Old Time" Sicilian, will return you to a place, and a people, you thought existed only in Steinbeck.

Monterey: A View from Garlic Hill

History

Cutino, Peter J.

Americas

A Raft of Sea Otters

Science & Math

León, Vicki

Biological Sciences

Seals and Sea Lions

Nature & Ecology

The Kelp Forest

Hall, Howard

Our Mission Past for Kids softly brushes the surface of events in California from 1602 to 1834. Its stories and poems and yarns come from fact and fantasy, old diaries and new observations. These are woven together to show California's Hispanic roots. Accounts of explorations, missions, settlements and rancho life are presented for kids to read about in Spanish, in English, or both.

Our Mission Past for Kids

Linse & Kuska

Fat Tire Fun

Gwen Dawkins, Dirk Franklin

The Charm of the Central Coast (California)

Spurr, Elizabeth

An orphaned sea otter is given a new home at an island off the coast of California, where he plays with harbor seals and divers and makes long journeys along the coast

The Adventures of Phokey the Sea Otter: Based on a True Story

Children's Books

Riedman, Marianne

Biographies

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