Named for the Spanish padres who established a network of missions along California's southern and central coasts, the Los Padres National Forest is the second-

Multi-Use Trail Book is a hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding book for Los Angeles and Ventura. This trail book has everything you need to know before

• 125 of the best trails throughout the Los Angeles metro area • Easy-to-use, well-organized guide to hiking in the greater Los Angeles area • Hikes featu

This guide is comprised of painstaking detail and descriptions for 52 trails located near the towns of Big Sur, Fresno, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Bakersfi

Beginning with the arrival of the Europeans in the New World and the invasion of the Caribbean, this volume traces the expansion of Catholicism into New Spain.