The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawaiʻi’s Endangered Ecosystems

by Pamela Frierson Trinity University Press (forthcoming) The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai’i’s Endangered Ecosystems is Pamela Frierson’s first-person account of her journey up the Hawaiian Archipelago to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.  The Hawaiʻi most people are familiar with consists of eight islands. From east to northwest, they are Hawaiʻi, Maui, Kahoʻolawe, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, and Niʻihau. [...]

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Island World: A History of Hawai‘i and the United States

By Gary Y. Okihiro University of California Press, 2008 In Island World, Gary Y. Okihiro reconsiders the traditional idea that the United States acts upon and dominates Hawai‘i without the Islands in turn acting upon the mainland U.S. Using geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, Okihiro reveals Hawaiians fighting in the Civil War, sailing [...]

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