"Longtime Malibu resident Marian Hall relates the legend, lore and history of one of America's most beautiful coastal enclaves -- from 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"--Provided by publisher.