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Hawaii: Big Island
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO3983. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 4 items are available
for $67, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXHWI41) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Hawaii Map, the Big Island
Univ Hawaii
MAP
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.
(HWI169, $4.95) |
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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, $16.95) |
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Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Liliuokalani
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The other side of the fascinating story of the overthrow of the native rule in 1893, and the ascent of American influence in Hawaii. Here the deposed queen tells the story from her own perspective.
(HWI20, $13.95) |
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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, $14.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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, $6.99) |
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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, $24.95) |
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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) |
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific
H. Douglas Pratt
FIELD GUIDE
An outstanding field guide with chapters on the islands and habitats, superb color plates and a checklist of birds by island group.
(HWI32, $45.00) |
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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) |
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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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