Novelist Moore's evocative account of life in old Hawa and particularly Kuai, where she spent her school holidays as a child in the 1950s. She also looks at the Polynesian and colonial history of the islands up to the 20th century. Moore is the author of several novels including "My Old Sweetheart," "In the Cut," "Sleeping Beauties" and "The Whiteness of Bones." A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.  (HWI89, $20.00)