hawaii by small ship

READING GUIDE
HAWAII BY SMALL SHIP
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ESSENTIAL
Item EXHWI71. Buy these 4 items as a set for $67
including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free
shipping on anything else you order.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii
1989, PAPER, 298 PAGES, $17.99
These observant and often wildly hilarious
letters from an 1866 trip display Twain’s
famous wit. (Item HWI170)
James L. Haley
Captive Paradise, A History of Hawaii
2015, PAPER, 464 PAGES, $19.99
A fascinating history of America’s youngest
(and, arguably, most unique) state. Historian
and biographer James Haley charts Hawaii’s
epic journey from kingdom to statehood with
authority. (Item HWI271)
Eyewitness Guides
Eyewitness Guide Hawaii
2015, PAPER, 252 PAGES, $23.00
An on-the-ground guide to the Hawaiian
Islands -- handsome, comprehensive and
superb. (Item HWI46)
Nelles
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Kahikahealani Wight
Illustrated Hawaiian Dictionary
2005, PAPER, 448 PAGES, $10.95
This pocket dictionary is the perfect language
primer for travelers with more than 5000 word
entries as well as grammar notes and helpful
phrases. With black-and-white illustrations.
(Item HWI289)
Julia Flynn Siler
Lost Kingdom
2013, PAPER, 480 PAGES, $16.00
Royalty and rogues, sugar barons, politicians
and missionaries all figure in Siler’s riveting tale
of Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii. (Item
HWI254)
Susanna Moore
Paradise of the Pacific, Approaching
Hawaii
2015, HARD COVER, 352 PAGES, $26.00
An enjoyable history of late 18th-century
Hawaii by an award-winning novelist. Moore
confines her focus to the islands’ not-so-distant
collision with the West, conjuring important
figures from the period, including shipwrecked
sailors, Spanish galleons, British navigators and
Irish poachers. (Item HWI283)
Hawaiian Islands Map
Gavan Daws
Nelles’ clear, simple-fold map of the Hawaiian
islands features the roadways and topography
of Hawaii’s Big Island (1:330,000) plus plenty
of insets. (Item HWI42)
1989, PAPER, 494 PAGES, $22.99
2014, MAP, PAGES, $9.95
Shoal of Time: A History of the
Hawaiian Islands
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. (Item HWI02)
Sarah Vowell
I. Greenberg
2012, PAPER, 256 PAGES, $16.00
1983, PLASTIC CARD, PAGES, $7.50
Unfamiliar Fishes
Tracking the Americanization of Hawaii from
the arrival of the first missionaries in 1820 to
the annexation in 1898 (Queen Liliuokalani
was in Washington lobbying to save her nation
during the McKinley inauguration), Vowell
shows the complex interplay of god, business
and tradition with her usual acerbic wit (and
research). (Item HWI248)
Liliuokalani
Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen
2004, PAPER, 410 PAGES, $24.95
A poignant plea for sovereignty. Queen
Liliuokalani, deposed by the United States
in 1893, tells the story of her islands. (Item
HWI20)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels in Hawaii
1991, PAPER, 205 PAGES, $20.00
The famous writer brings his wonderful gift
for storytelling to bear in this account of the
islands. There is real emotion in these essays,
which were written during a particularly
romantic period in the author’s life. (Item
HWI171)
James Michener
Hawaii
2002, PAPER, 937 PAGES, $18.00
A romantic, fictional overview of the islands’
history, people and culture from prehistoric
times to statehood in 1959. (Item HWI17)
Hawaii Fishwatcher’s Field Guide
A handy, laminated card featuring full color
illustrations of 60 common and spectacular
denizens of Hawaiian coral reefs. (Item
HWI53)
James Kavanagh
Hawaii Wildlife
2010, PLASTIC CARD, PAGES, $6.95
A fold-up, laminated card featuring color
drawings and short descriptions of commonly
encountered birds, mammals and other critters
of Hawaii. (Item HWI245)
Les Beletsky
Hawaii, Travellers’ Wildlife Guides
2005, PAPER, 350 PAGES, $27.95
This all-around field guide features color
illustrations of commonly encountered birds,
mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish with
notes on Hawaii’s geology and popular parks
and reserves. (Item HWI50)
I. Greenberg
Hawaiian Marine Invertebrates, Shells
of Hawaii
1987, PLASTIC CARD, PAGES, $7.50
A convenient laminated double-sided card
featuring full color illustrations of cowries,
cones and other shells, crabs, corals and other
invertebrates. (Item HWI54)
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Paul Theroux
Hotel Honolulu
2002, PAPER, 424 PAGES, $15.95
This hilarious sendup of ex-pats and their
ilk, drawing on Theroux’s time in the islands,
where he has a home, features a full cast of
eccentrics who reside in and visit a fleabag
hotel on the coast of Oahu. (Item HWI72)
Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Descendants
2008, PAPER, 297 PAGES, $16.00
The bittersweet tale of a storied Hawaiian
family in crisis, adapted for the Alexander
Payne movie starring George Clooney. (Item
HWI255)
James Kavanagh
Hawaii Birds
2003, PLASTIC CARD, PAGES, $6.95
Handy for a pocket or backpack, this durable,
fold-out bird reference features 150 species
familiar to Hawaii. (Item HWI268)
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