Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian IslandsClark compared and contrasted the Hawaiian society and civilization on the anniversary of the bombardment and sixty years later, listing the changes brought about by the Second World War. She relies on Hawaiian for this enlightening presentation of the people's opposition to the United States' annexation in Hawaii.
A groundbreaking guidebook with sections on the islands and habitat containing excellent Pratt colour charts and a bird check list. From prehistory to 1959, a fictitious, romantically illustrated survey of the islands' past, peoples and nationalities. All Hawaiian Islands at 1:150,000, and Hawaii at 1:330,000, included O'ahu, Kaua'i, Maui, Moloka'i and Lana'i.
The Hawaiian Islands tour guides - good-looking, extensive and great. The journalist Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's history into the 20th centuries through this new interpretation of great political and social incidents before and after the state in 1959. This is a colourful and thorough intro to the fish that live off Hawaii. Colour photos of over 250 native varieties, with commonly used English and Hawaiian name.
Inspired by Theroux's days on the islands where he has a home, this humorous young man of ex-Pats and their kind shows a whole bunch of eccentric people staying and visiting a flea bagger on the Oahu coastline. This is a classical survey of Hawaiian ethnic ity and people. From the great volcanographer (who passed away on Mount Onzen in Japan in 1992), this booklet shows several hundred full-colour pictures and retraces the volcanic history from early myths and legends to contemporary man.
Featuring colorful images of common bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fishing species, this versatile guidebook provides information on Hawaii's terrain and favourite wildlife preserves. A bitter-sweet story of a Hawaiian familie in a state of emergency, adjusted for the Alexander Payne film with George Clooney. This is a clear report on hikes and adventure in Hawaii.
A descendent of the Pi'ilani line of Maui and the Kahakumakaliua line of Kauai, he examines questions of racialism and imperialism in Hawaii and documents the work of the local Hawaiian students' organisations and the Hawaiian self-government organisation Ka Lahuni Hawaii. An expandable laminate map with colored illustrations and brief description of common Hawaiian species of bird, mammal and other life forms.
He tells the thrilling story of the buckling pestilence that hit the Hawaiian coast when the islands were to become U.S. territories through the eye of the humans in the huge fire that ravaged Honolulus Chinatown. This is a living, learned story of Hawaii, from Cook's first trip to the islands in 1778 to the state.
This is a classical, well-told story, first released in 1968. On the trail of Hawaii's Americanisation from the advent of the first Hawaiian Missionary in 1820 to its 1898 annunciation (Queen Liliuokalani was in Washington during the McKinley consecration to rescue her nation), Vowell shows the complexity of the interaction of divine, commercial and traditional with her customary sharp joke (and research).
Royal houses and villains, sweethearts, political figures and evangelists stand in Silver's gripping history of Liliuokalani, the last Hawaiian state. In 1893 the United States removed Queens Liliuokalani told the history of her islands. This is a classical report about the old Hawaii, warm-hearted and atmospheric. On the back are postcards from the 1940s showing Pearl Harbor.
He follows the growing tension between the United States and the once-neutral Hawaii until the end of the nineteenth centuary and documents how the local populace opposed Annexion. This is a mass report of the Pearl Harbor bombings, long but legible. Concentrating on the experiences of Hawaii's natives rather than those of their colonisers, Buck looks at the changes in Hawaiian civilization over the past 200 years.
An intriguing story of the youngest (and probably most unique) state of America. James Haley, curator and researcher, traces Hawaii's epochal voyage from the realm to the states. It is a story of the islands' economy from sand-wood and whale hunting to the 1980s with regard to sugars, travel and investments in Japan. Usorio shows the impact of the West's right on the nation hood of Hawaiians in the Hawaiian Kingdom's domestic politics from the beginning of its 1840 constitution to the 1887 bayonet constitution.
Featuring Hawaiian historical, cultural and natural features by an amazing group of authors such as Paul Theroux, John McPhee and Maxine Hong Kingston.