TY - JOUR
AU - Williams, Dennis
AB -  PRINT REVIEWS * 77 the San MiguelIsland is notwithout shortcomings. its Although writing is casual and generally an for educatedgeneral audience, style appropriate the text is replete with minorpunctuation problems.Word choice is the of occasionally reflecting difficulty dealingwithsuch clumsy, possibly a wide rangeof sources,or simply rushto meeta publishing a deadline. One more good proofreading with some carefuleditingwould have cleaned it up. Two otherminor and the weaknesses,in itsbibliography index,impair book's effectiveness a researchtool. The bibliography as several contains errorsthatcould hamperfollow-up otherresearchers. typographical by the indexmissesmanynames and topicsthatare coveredin the Worse, text. For example,the index listsPrinceIsland as being foundonlyon on page 95. It is also found pages 4, 101, 134, 135,on mapson pagesii and 138, and on the back cover. Daisy Cave, an important site, archeological is notlisted,norare thenamesofmany withtheisland's people associated William (i.e., the first history sheep raiser,Samuel C. Bruce,page 87ff.; Schilling, partownerfora time,pages 96-97). Nativeplants,bothcommon and genericnames,are also ignored.A morecompleteindexwould make the book's valuable information moreaccessibleto archaeologists, and historians, scientists. genealogists, This book,despiteitsshortcomings, be useful a resource just can as not to travellers tourists in and interested the ChannelIslands,but to historians and archaeologists West Coast sites. Robertsenlarges researching California history addressingthe impactof nationalenvironnmental by policy. She presentsan integrated 
TI - Saving California's Coast: Army Engineers at Oceanside and Humboldt Bay
JF - The Public Historian
DO - 10.2307/3378591
DA - 1994-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/saving-california-s-coast-army-engineers-at-oceanside-and-humboldt-bay-bcLomDXvP0
SP - 77
VL - 16
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -