Pre-Statehood publication
Price: |
9.99 |
Title: |
The Hawaiian Chain |
Author: |
E. H. Bryan, Jr. |
Description: |
Softcover (7x10), Bishop Museum Press, 1954. 71 pages. B/W photos, diagrams, map |
Condition: |
Pocket inside back cover, minor mark and white out on title page,pages creased top corner about half of book,
cover edge and corner, small area of insect damage to back cover along with tear/crease, spine straight and tight. |
Summary: |
Author was the Curator of Bishop Museum at the time of issue. CONTENTS:
Types of islands
Island areas
How were the islands formed?
Legend of Pele
The coming of plants and animals
Means of dispersal and nature's balance
--Land bridges
--Endemic animals
--Endemic plants
--Specialized flora and fauna
--Natural barriers
--Land snails and evolution
--The upset of nature's balance
--Plant hosts of insects
--Foreign introductions
--Sandalwood trade
The Hawaiian People
Cultural revolution
--Overthrow of kapu
Introduced diseases
Discoveries along the Hawaiian chain
The Leeward islands
Hawaii from the air
North side of Molokai
West Maui
Haleakala
Kohala
Hamakua and Mauna Kea
What is a tsunami?
Hilo region
Puna
Kilauea: Kau Desert - Green kau
Kona
Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea
Return to Oahu
--Kauai and Niihau
The 'little end of Hawaii'
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