North America's Galapagos Islands

Standing on the shore of the Pacific Ocean at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles Times Best Selling author, Corinne Heyning Laverty, will transport Ted Talk listeners to California’s eight Channel Islands, introducing them not only to the unique animals, plants and human history that has shaped these resilient scraps of land, but also, to the ambitious scientists who set out during the pre-WWII years to do what no one before or since has done, completely survey North America’s Galapagos Islands. Photos courtesy of: Corinne Heyning Laverty Channel Islands National Park Holli Harmon (oil) Jack Couffer Maps from the book North America's Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey by Corinne Heying Laverty (created by Chelsea Feeney, calligraphy by Alfredo Chiappini, artwork by Cypress Hansen). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Archives ©Nicolaas Heyning, https://nicopedia.smugmug.com/ ©Tim Hauf, timhaufphotographycom Wikimedia Commons