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Incredible Hawaii [electronic resource].

by Barrow, Terence, 1923-2001

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New York : Tuttle Pub., 1989.

Hawaii -- History.

Hawaii -- Miscellanea

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9781462904501 (electronic bk.)

1462904505 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (202 p.)

Cover; Table of Contents; Publisher's foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 A Hawaiian story of creation; 2 Hawaiian origins and navigational skills; 3 The Hawaiian canoe; 4 The demi-god who fished up islands; 5 Drifting islands of Hawaii; 6 The little people of the night; 7 Animal guardians of Hawaii; 8 Dogs that did not bark; 9 The humuhumunukunukuapua'a and other fish; 10 The king of beasts in old Hawaii; 11 Banana, breadfruit and pandanus; 12 Poi: the Hawaiian staff of life; 13 Cocus nucifera: the tree of life; 14 Tree oddities of Hawaii; 15 Temples and shrines of Hawaii.

16 Waikiki and its kahuna stones17 Black magic arts of the old kahuna; 18 Desecration of the dead; 19 The tattooists' art in old Hawaii; 20 Games and leisure in old Hawaii; 21 Surfing on land and sea; 22 Sacred hula of old Hawaii; 23 Cockfighting as a sport; 24 Abolition of sex discrimination; 25 A challenge to the Fire Goddess Pele; 26 The lovers' half-flower; 27 Featherwork of ruling chiefs; 28 Whalers and Asian junks; 29 How Captain Cook died a god; 30 Ukulele and 'ukeke; 31 Kamehameha: Hawaii's first king; 32 The ancient art of petroglyphs; 33 The first written Hawaiian.

34 A way of escape in old Hawaii35 Diamond Head: symbol of Hawaii; 36 Oahu's miraculous water system; 37 A love marriage of princess and commoner; 38 Hawaii and its many flowers; 39 Famous literary visitors; 40 Paniolo and the pa'u riders; 41 Old Ironsides visits Honolulu; 42 The upside-down falls of Nu'uanu valley; 43 Skiing in Hawaii on real snow; 44 The state bird is a goose; 45 The candlenut tree; 46 America's only royal palace; 47 Insignia of the 50th state; 48 Two royal songwriters; 49 Oahu's most sacred burial place; 50 The saga of Hawaii's shipping lanes; 51 The saga of air travel.

52 Hawaii's cosmopolitan peopleBackcover.

This unique little book, incredible in its own way, . brings together the talents, knowledge and experience of two well-known Hawaiian residents, artist-illustrator Ray Lanterman and author-anthropologist Terence Barrow. Whatever their subject, the authors sail along with justifiable confidence, opening to the reader, page after page, vistas of a little-known Hawaii. At times light-hearted, at other times serious, it is always a readable and lookable book. The authors delight in the unusual.

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