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National Geographic Hawaii
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 272 PAGES
A guidebook to Hawaii, published by National Geographic in their attractive, visual style. The guide features many photographs, maps and good information on history, nature, culture and travel.
(HWI87, $22.95)
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii
Mark Twain
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1989 PAPER 298 PAGES
The young journalist Mark Twain's letters home, observant and often wildly hilarious. Written before his first novel, the letters already show Twain's famous wit. His 1866 trip was sponsored by the Sacramento Union.
(HWI170, $17.99)
Hawaii, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
Les Beletsky
FIELD GUIDE 2005 PAPER 350 PAGES
An all-around field guide intended for the curious traveler, this handbook features color illustrations of commonly-encountered birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and coral reef creatures. It also includes a good introduction to Hawaii, its natural history and conservation. It's a well written overview of just about everything natural you are likely to see, which like the other volumes in the series, showcases the author's ostentatiously bad sense of humor. It's rife with puns.
(HWI50, $27.95)
Travelers' Tales Hawai'i True Stories
Rick Carroll
ANTHOLOGY 2005 PAPER 394 PAGES
A revised anthology of terrific writing on the nature and culture of Hawaii by Paul Theroux, John McPhee, Maxine Hong Kingston and others.
(HWI91, $18.95)
Hawaiian Islands Map
Nelles
MAP
A map of all the individual Hawaiian islands, featuring maps of O'ahu, Kaua'i, Maui, Moloka'i and Lana'i at 1:150,000 and of Hawai'i at 1:330,000. Includes an inset map of Waikiki. Two Sides. 20x36 inches.
(HWI42, $8.95)
Reference Map of Kaua'I
James A. Bier
The seventh edition of this informative, full-color map of the Garden Isle at a scale of 1:600,00. With beautiful topographic detail, it includes city and town insets, points of interest and an index.
(HWI85, $3.95)
Eyewitness Guide Hawaii
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
An on-the-ground guide to the Hawaiian Islands -- handsome, comprehensive and superb.
(HWI46, $23.00)
Hawaii By Cruise Ship
Anne Vipond
GUIDEBOOK
With hundreds of color photographs and a pull-out map, this excellent guide covers all the major islands and ports-of-call. With pre and post-cruise suggestions for hotels on Oahu and Maui and detailed information on suggested shore excursions.
(HWI241, $19.95)
Knopf Mapguide Hawaii
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the islands, featuring fold-out maps.
(HWI200, $10.95)
Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Hawaii
Lonely Planet Publications
GUIDEBOOK
Compact, llustrated guide to underwater sites around Oahu, the Big Island, Maui and beyond.
(HWI95, $24.99)
Michelin Hawaiian Islands, Must Sees
Alis Coupe
GUIDEBOOK
(HWI246, $11.99)
Top Trails Maui
Sara Benson
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN FEBRUARY
Maps, milestones and access are covered in this roundup of 37 Day hikes and overnight adventures.
(HWI243, $17.95)
Volcanoes in America's National Parks
Robert & Barbara Decker
GUIDEBOOK
A geophysicist at Dartmouth and former scientist-at-charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Robert Decker writes winningly of the formation, diversity and allure of volcanoes from Yellowstone to Hawaii and Alaska in this compact, illustrated guide featuring 255 color photographs and 28 outstanding maps.
(USW514, $24.95)
Island World, A History of Hawai'i and the United States
Gary Y. Okihiro
HISTORY
Okihiro gives the history of Hawaii and the United States a lucid retelling -- he focuses on the island's impact on the country, rather than the reverse, with beautifully written chapters on Hawaiian arts and culture, missionaries, the gold rush, Hawaiian emigrants and other topics.
(HWI216, $18.95)
Land and Power in Hawaii
Gavan Daws
George Cooper
HISTORY
A local classic, providing an introduction to the political history of Hawaii. The character of politics and power in Hawaii are described, explained, and criticized.
(HWI37, $24.95)
Pearl Harbor Ghosts, The Legacy of December 7, 1941
Thurston Clarke
HISTORY
A well-researched and evocative look at the bombing of Pearl Harbor by a veteran travel writer. Clarke compares and contrasts the social life and culture of Hawaii on the day of the bombing and sixty years later, enumerating the changes wrought by WWII.
(HWI68, $19.00)
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands
Gavan Daws
HISTORY
A vivid, scholarly history of Hawaii, from Cook's first visit to the islands in 1778 through statehood. A classic, well told history, first published in 1968.
(HWI02, $20.99)
Born in Paradise
Armine von Tempski
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
The autobiographical tale of childhood on a Maui ranch in the early part of this century. A classic account of old Hawaii, warm-spirited and evocative.
(HWI21, $14.95)
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Liliuokalani
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
In this important history and poignant plea for sovereignty, Queen Liliuokalani herself, deposed by the United States in 1893, tells the story of her islands.
(HWI20, $8.95)
Travels in Hawaii
Robert Louis Stevenson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The famous writer brings his wonderful gift for storytelling to bear in this account of the islands. There is real emotion in these essays, which were written during a particularly romantic period in the author's life.
(HWI171, $20.00)
Hawaii
James A. Michener
LITERATURE
A romantic, fictional overview of the islands' history, people and culture from prehistoric times to statehood in 1959.
(HWI17, $17.00)
Ka'a'awa, A Novel about Hawaii in the 1850s
O. A. Bushnell
LITERATURE
Bushnell evokes the island and people of Oahu a century ago, in this beloved novel, spiced with the rhythms of of Hawaii and comic flair.
(HWI201, $24.95)
Shark Dialogues
Kiana Davenport
LITERATURE
Riveting and rich in local imagery, this acclaimed novel follows the lives and loves of seven generations of Hawaiian women.
(HWI03, $16.00)
Sleeping Beauties
Susanna Moore
LITERATURE
A fine novel featuring some beautifully rendered passages on the islands. It's the story of a young runaway, her eccentric aunt (an expert on local lore), and an opportunity to escape island life.
(HWI18, $13.00)
Tales of the Pacific
Jack London
LITERATURE
Jack London spent the last year and a half of his life in and around the Hawaiian Islands. This collection of tales, skirting the line between fiction and non-fiction, is some of his last and best writing, richly evoking the islands.
(PAC02, $12.00)
Atlas of Hawaii
James O. Juvik
Sonia P. Juvik
NATURAL HISTORY
A sourcebook of outstanding interest for the curious traveler, this abundantly illustrated atlas, with contributions by dozens of scholars, includes not just maps but lively essays on the nature, culture and society of the archipelago.
(HWI01, $51.99)
Chasing Lava, A Geologist's Adventures at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Wendell A. Duffield
NATURAL HISTORY
An abundantly illustrated and lively overview of volcanoes, volcanism, plate tectonics, hot spots and field work from a geologist at Kilauea.
(HWI184, $16.00)
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth
Maurice Krafft
NATURAL HISTORY
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992).
(GEO06, $15.95)
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific
H. Douglas Pratt
FIELD GUIDE
This landmark field guide with chapters on the islands and habitats features superb color plates by Pratt and a checklist of birds.
(HWI32, $45.00)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawaii
Jim Denny
FIELD GUIDE
A superbly photographed, authoritative guide.
(HWI235, $19.99)
Hawaii Fishwatcher's Field Guide
Idaz Greenberg
FIELD GUIDE
A handy, laminated card featuring full color illustrations of 60 common and spectacular denizens of Hawaiian coral reefs.
(HWI53, $7.50)
Hawaii Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species
James Kavanagh
FIELD GUIDE
COMING IN OCTOBER
A fold-up, laminated card featuring color drawings and short descriptions of commonly encountered birds, mammals and other critters of Hawaii.
(HWI245, $5.95)
Hawaiian Marine Invertebrates, Shells of Hawaii
Idaz Greenberg
FIELD GUIDE
A convenient laminated double-sided card featuring full color illustrations of cowries, cones and other shells, crabs, corals and other invertebrates.
(HWI54, $7.50)
Shore Fishes of Hawaii
John Randall
FIELD GUIDE
A pocket field guide to all the reef fishes that a casual snorkeler or diver is likely to see.
(HWI55, $19.99)
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