by Marian Hall

Longtime Malibu resident Marian Hall relates the legend, lore and history of one of America's most beautiful coastal enclaves, Malibu. With more than 100 vintage and full-color images, Hall tells the story behind this magical place, the earliest explorers who communed with the Chumash Indians, to today, showing and telling why it has become among the most-expensive beach and mountain property in the world, home to the rich, the famous, the party-folk and the quiet types, up-and-comers and old-timers. Once they've come to Malibu, no one can leave its environs. Malibu, indeed, a state of mind, a way of life.