The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge

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The Santa Monica Mountains is the only range that transverses a major metropolitan city in North America slicing Los Angeles and defining it shaping its hills and its valleys its canyons and its ocean front. The Santa Monicas is undeniably a range on the edge of the world welcoming the Pacific into its rocky ridges almost daring the ocean waves to break at its foothills. The mountains are dotted with mountain lions bobcats and mule deer rock singers movie stars and writers lilies oaks and steelhead trout bikers hikers and grizzled peaks that seem to kiss the sky. Along the course of its forty-six-mile span the range encompasses Dodger Stadium Griffith Park Laurel and Coldwater canyons Hollywood the Hollywood Sign Beverly Hills the Getty Museum Pacific Palisades and Malibu to name only a few points of iconic interest. And these are mountains that have gone uncelebrated until now in The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge a compelling history and commentary by award-winning writer Matthew Jaffe punctuated with 140 breathtaking images captured by renowned landscape-art photographer Tom Gamache. The definitive biography lovers of the Santa Monica Mountains have been waiting for the story of a magnificent range on the edge of Americas edgiest city.