Catalina by Sea:: A Transportation History

by Jeannine L. Pedersen, Catalina Island Museum, The Catalina Island Museum

Book Overview

A fancy flight of lyrics specifies that Santa Catalina Island is "26 miles across the sea." But mapmakers put the distance at 19.7 miles from the closest island point, Doctor's Cove (near Arrow Point), to the closest mainland locale, Point Fermin at San Pedro. Today boats and helicopters operating out of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Newport Beach, and Dana Point transport musing songwriters and everyone else to Catalina for the song's much-promised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738531162
• ISBN13: 9780738531168
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"