Table of contents : Contents Preface to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments English-Metric Conversions part one Island Evolution: A Hawaiian Primer 1. Out of the Earth 2. From the Forces of Life 3. Arrival and Adaptation part two :Th e Surrounding Sea 4. Blue Abyss and Twilight Slopes 5. A Place for Whales 6. The Coral Rim 7. Decline of a Lagoon 8. The Seal and the Turtle 9. Seabirds High and Low Part three: Shores of Many Moods 10. Lonely Rocks and Atolls 11. Coasts of Change Part four: Green Crags and Canyons 12. Rain Forests in Transition 13. Freshwaters 14. Dying Songs: Hawai‘i’s Forest Birds 15. Insects and Snails: Evolutionary Tales Part five: Volcanoes in the Sky 16. Cloudlands and Drylands 17. Alpine Fire and Ice part six: The Fate of the Living Land 18. Primeval Hawai‘i 19. ‘Āina and Ahupua‘a 20. The Remaking of Eden 21. Waves of the Future Notes Index