First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Hawaii Recalls: Nostalgic Images of the Hawaiian Islands, 1910-1950

Brown, DeSoto

Reference

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Diamond Head's stark silhouette stands as a symbolic sentinel over Waikiki. This is the story of Waikiki, wonderfully illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs. Hawaiian chiefs ruled Oahu from Waikiki until the advent of European trade in the early 1800s. Later, Waikiki became an agricultural backwater when the center of commerce was moved to Honolulu where the deep harbor could accommodate European ships. During the Victorian era both Hawaiian royalty and haole society made Waikiki a playground. Thus began its gradual return to prominence in a new context---as a twentieth century visitor destination. Waikiki today is a magical metropolis that glitters with the glamour of an urban resort, while maintaining a casual tropical ambiance.

The View from Diamond Head: Royal Residence to Urban Resort

History

Don Hibbard

Americas

The cartographic history of Hawai'i began with the arrival of explorer and chartmaker Captain James Cook in 1778. Between then and the mid-19th century, visitors to Hawai i produced a rich assortment of charts amid maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of Hawai i during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. A major segment of The Early Mapping of Hawai i it examines the contribution of American missionaries in mapping Hawai i. Mostly produced at the seminary school at Lahainaluna, Maui, these maps introduced geographical education into the Hawaiian school system. Lahainaluna graduate S. P. Kalama produced a landmark map of the islands in 1838, one of the most significant maps in Hawaiian history. Nearly one hundred maps, views, portraits, and illustrations are reproduced here. Included are many charts and harbor plans pro¬duced by James Cook, William Bligh, George Vancouver, Otto von Kotzebue, Urey Lisiansky, Jean Francois de la Pérouse, Louis Duperrey, and Charles Wilkes. These charts document the early geography of Honolulu, Lahaina, Hilo, and Kailua, as well as many bays and harbors in the islands. Samuel Kamakau Award: Best Hawaii Book 1986-1993

The Early Mapping of Hawai'i (Palapala'aina, Vol 1)

Gary L. Fitzpatrick

Maili Yardley, long time food columnist in The Honolulu Advertiser, gives us more than a cookbook. Hawaii Cooks Throughout the Year offers favorite local recipes seasoned with island lore. It is a calendar (twelve chapters) of cooking, telling of the seasons for popular island fruit, the Hawaiian names of your favorite fish, suggested menus for summer picnics, long weekends, and holidays. Hapa-haole in flavor, you'll find bits of Island lore seasoning the recipes you'll find so pleasant to the palate. Written for kamaainas, malihinis and neophytes in the kitchen alike, you'll enjoy the guide for Hawaiian names of popular fish and the recipes for luau favorites.

Hawaii Cooks Throughout the Year

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Maili Yardley

Regional & International

This is the definitive comprehensive work on the history, skills and traditions of the Hawaiian canoe from ancient voyaging craft through the evolution to the modern racing canoe. Numerous specially commissioned diagrams and illustrations, along with a wealth of photographs---many previously unpublished---will delight anyone with an interest in the maritime history of Hawaii. Starting at the time of Christ, Polynesians began probing the farthest inhabitable reaches of the Pacific. By 1200 A.D. they had settled remote Easter Island to the east, Hawaii to the north, and New Zealand to the south---in short, every habitable island in a sweep of blue roughly equal in size to the entire land mass of the Western hemisphere. They discovered the Pacific, where there were roughly two units of land for every thousand units of water. It would be centuries before western man would venture out of sight of land. Hawaii, land of the most geographically isolated culture on earth! , would be discovered and settled more than a thousand years before Captain Cook was born.

The Hawaiian Canoe

Tommy Holmes

Modern Hawaiian history has an antecedent in a single historic episode, the mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III) abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure and adopted the Western concept of private ownership of property. Surveying the Mahele reveals how the complex disciplines of mapping and surveying, which reflect values of feudal European society that underlie modern concepts of land ownership, changed the destiny of Hawai'i. The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of mahele land surveys that range in scope from single home sites to a plat of one hundred thousand acres. In the matter of a few years, Hawai'i changed from a society in which the ali'i ai'moku, or king, served as stew¬ard of the land that belonged to the gods, to one in which he, the ali'i, or nobility, and the maka'ainana, or com¬moners, acquired outright ownership of land. Surveying the Mahele examines the work of the few professional surveyors, such as William Webster, whose work in Hawai'i was as fine as any in the world. It describes the efforts of missionaries John Emerson and William Patterson Alexander, who used their surveying skills to help their parishioners acquire land under the new laws passed as part of the mahele. Volume II also presents the work of notable Hawaiians, such as Samuel P. Kalama and John W. Makalena, who learned surveying from missionary teach¬ers and applied their art during the Mahele.

Surveying the Mahele: Mapping the Hawaiian Land Revolution (Palapala'aina, Vol. 2)

Riley Moore Moffat

Shark Who Learned a Lesson

Ricky Grigg

To the delight of a multitude of loyal fans, the Islands' grandam of Epicurean and Hawaiiana authorship has finally written her long-awaited first novel. It will be to no one's apprised that Maili Yardley is still kicking, and writing with her usual flair as she travels deep into her ninth decade. A natural and avid correspondent herself, is only to be expected that the she is at her best through this medium of letters. Her keen observations of Island life taking place two and three generations ago will ring true to kama'aina. Old timers will recognize some familiar names among these fictional characters, a device used to enhance the atmosphere of those bi-gone days Maili excels at portraying. --- from book's back cover

Letters from the Lanai

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hawaiian Furniture and Hawaii's Cabinetmakers, 1820-1940

Politics & Social Sciences

Irving Jenkins

Social Sciences

Na pule kahiko: Ancient Hawaiian prayers

June Gutmanis

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