The West Coast's near-shore islands make intriguing subjects for articles ranging from lighthouses off the coast of Mexico and California, to smugglers among the Channel Islands, to a winter whaling outpost north of Alaska.

Contents:
"The Lost Voices of San Benitos Island" by Fabio Martinez
"A Thousand Hiding Places: The Smuggling of Chinese Immigrants and Opium in the Channel Islands" by Linda Bentz
"William Gerald, the Chanel Pirate: A Smuggler of the Islands" by Michael Buxton
"A Visit to the Farallones, 1950" by Jan Mattson
"Herschel Island: San Francisco's Outpost on a Lonely Arctic Coast" by David Hull and Michael Dobrin

56 pages

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