Islands in a Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawaii, Revised Edition 9780824874544
First published in 1988, Islands in a Far Sea offers a comprehensive environmental history of Hawai‘i. This thoroughly r
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English Pages 432 Year 2005
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
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
- Author / Uploaded
- John L. Culliney
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