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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXHWI41)
 
Moon Handbook Big Island of Hawaii, Including Hawaii Volcanoes National Park  •  Robert Nilsen
GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES
This comprehensive practical guide focuses on the big island of Hawaii and Volcanoes National Park, combining an overview of history, culture and nature with how-to information for travelers. With photographs, maps and illustrations. (HWI186, $19.95)
  Moon Handbook Big Island of Hawaii, Including Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
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)
  Hawaii, Travellers' Wildlife Guides
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)
  Travelers' Tales Hawai'i True Stories
Hawaii Map, the Big Island  •  Univ Hawaii
2009 •  PAPER
This full-color reference map, published by the University of Hawaii Press, shows the Big Island at a scale of 1:262,000. With cartography by James Bier. Features of the seventh edition of this full-color, topographic map of the Big Island include detailed road networks, large-scale inset maps of towns, points of interest (historic, natural and cultural), hiking trails, parks, beaches, waterfalls, peaks and ridges (with altitudes), and more than 2,200 place names (index included). Most notably, Hawaiian words are spelled with all accent marks. (HWI169, $4.99)
  Hawaii Map, the Big Island



Also Recommended
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii  •  Mark Twain   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  These observant and often wildly hilarious letters from an 1866 trip display Twain's famous wit. (HWI170, $17.99)
 
 
Hawaii  •  James A. Michener   • LITERATURE  •  A romantic, fictional overview of the islands' history, people and culture from prehistoric times to statehood in 1959. (HWI17, $15.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Where There's a Will  •  Aaron J. Elkins   • MYSTERY  •  In this 12th Gideon Oliver mystery, Hawaiian history and culture form the backdrop for a horrific murder. The anthropologist visits the islands for relaxation, yet quickly becomes intrigued by the mysterious killing of two Swedish cattle ranchers. (HWI92, $7.99)
 
 
The Earth Machine, The Science of a Dynamic Planet  •  James D. Webster  •  Edmond A. Mathez   • SCIENCE  •  An informative, illustrated overview of the earth and its fiery origins by curators of the American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Planet Earth. (GEO44, $29.95)
 
 
Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change  •  Richard Fisher   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A complete primer for the volcano lover, this heavily illustrated book covers types of volcanoes and eruptions, worldwide distribution and the physics of their formation. (GEO02, $29.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 

 
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