The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12
THE ATTRACTIVE ISLES.

The Channel Islands of California; a
Book for the Angler. Sportsman, and
Tourist. BY Charles Frederick Holder
with Nearly loo Illustrations from
Photographs: and Twelve Maps. Pub
lished by a. C. McClurg & Co.. Chi
caSo.
Surely this is delightful book. The
Channel Islands of California are the
group along the coast from approx
mately latitude 81 to 80 degrees. inc
parallel corresponds with that of the
Mediterranean and Of Charleston and
northern Georgia on the Atiantic coast.
AS the author says, Wnat MADEIRA,
the Riviera. and the Azores are to
Europe. the Channel Islands of Califor-
mia have become to the United States,
great national playground, visited an
nually by an army of pleasure:seekers
and travellers not only from this coun-
try. but from all over the world--a con-
tingent which will be augmented many
fold as years go by, when the lsthmus
Canal is opened, and yachts and other
vessels can easily reach this coast. -
The author grows eloquent upon the
beauties and attractiveness of those
islands, and their facilities for good
sport in fishing; for their perfect eli
mate, "where from May to october, or
for six months, the idler, angler, golfer,
sportsman, or health seeker Will not ex-
perience squall or rainsterm-comfort-
able, beautiful days following one an
other In speaking of the various
sports available in these islands, he says
that ''golf. coaching, hunting, mountain
climbing, and diversion for the botanist
and archaeoogist. are at hand; and OF
the sports, that "their fame has been
with rod and reel, the region being, APP
parently, the meeting ground of many
great game fishes caught nowhere else,
and many indigenous to the locality.
Here is the leaplng tuna, the long
finned tuna, the yellow-fn, the white
sea bass, the lesping swordfish THAT
Jumps and out6ghts the tarpon, the vel
lowtall and many more, any one of
which would make any place famous,
and to catch some of which, scores OF
anglers cross the Atlantic and continent
yearly The title chapters of the
work give very good idea of the com
prehensive treatment (tbougn the au-
thor says he has made no attempt to
exhaust the sublcct); give a very good
idea of thoroughness and detail with
which he has pursued his work, These
are. HThe Channel Islands, - "The Dis
covery of Cabrillo and Vizcaino, "The
Log of Cabrilo, '"The Ancient Island
ers, y The Isle of Summer, Incl
denis III una flslnng, Inc luna
Club and Its Branches, - GA Remark
able Catch (Black Sea Bass) T., - GA Fa-
nous Coach Road, - "The Small Game
Fishes 'The Island Of San Gle
mente," "The Birds of the Island, .
" Hunting the Wild Goat, 1.-The Long
Elnned Tuna The Ever-changing
Island (Anacapa)," " ''The Animals of
the Island, Los Coronados and the
Lost Islands, - "Ashore at the Wrong
Time (the Yellow-Finncd Tuna), .
The Sand-dunes of the Islands. -
Gardens of the Sea- "A Passing
Island (San Nicolas),'' "The Sea Lion
Rookeries,' ''The Island of the Sacred
Cross. (Santa Cruz '.wild Boar
Hunting "Around Santa Rosa. -
San Miguel "The Glass .Bottomed
Boat. "Thc Lost Woman Of San Nico.
las, THE White Sea Bass ''The
Amber Fish. 1.-THE Tameness of Ami
mails, y "The Pearls Of the Islands, -
:, Trades of the Islands, Chow to
Reach the islands, There is a good
index which affords easy access to any
part OF the work desired. The book IS
especially rich in illustrations. and al.
together 1T is perhaps the finest that
has ever been presented Of that charm
ing and glorious region.