Charles Frederick Holder 
Channel Islands of California a Book for the Angler, Sportsman, and Tourist [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Nowhere, so far as known, at least not within two and a half hours from a city of three hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, such as Los Angeles, can be found islands with a semitropic yet bracing climate.