Shoal of Time

History

DAWS, Gavan

Americas

Macmillan

Highlights five nineteenth-century travelers who explored the South Seas and made discoveries about themselves

A Dream of Islands: John Williams, Herman Melville, Walter Murray Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Gauguin, and the South Seas

Literature & Fiction

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The Indonesian archipelago is a land of timeless natural beauty that in the twenty-first century faces unprecedented environmental degradation. It was also the biological laboratory of Alfred Russel Wallace, who, working independently of Charles Darwin, discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection. Wallace, who traveled for eight years in the archipelago, was one of the greatest field naturalists and nature writers of his century. No one was more skilled in observing and describing living things. A prodigious collector, he was the first to bring living birds of paradise to the West. And he was a great thinker, a theorist as formidable as any on earth. This magnificent account of a true explorer sweeps from the time of Wallace's nineteenth-century discoveries in biogeography to the looming biodiversity crisis of the twenty-first century—from the exploration of natural wonders to the exploitation of natural resources. The result is a history that powerfully portrays the intricate connections of human life and natural life. This unique story, published by the University of California Press in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy, is resplendently presented with maps, archival materials, and more than 200 color photographs. A portion of the proceeds from this book will go toward conservation efforts in Indonesia

Archipelago : Islands of Indonesia

Fujita, Marty

University of California Press

Survivors of the notorious Bataan death march, members of slave labor teams, soldiers in Douglas MacArthur's army in the Philippines, and other prisoners of war tell the stories of their capture, stories often ignored in official accounts. 25,000 first printing.

Prisoners of the Japanese: Pows of World War II in the Pacific

Military

William Morrow & Co.

Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal of Time emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories.

Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands

University of Hawaii Press

1984 trade paperback, 12th printing. Gavan Daws (Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands). A powerful biography of the Catholic priest and his ministry from 1873 to 1889 in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease), who were required to live under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokaʻi on the Kalaupapa Peninsula.

Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai

Religion & Spirituality

Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific - the powerful untold story

Robson Books

Drama. Set in a marine research lab, two dolphins (played by dancers) and their scientist keepers mix language and movement to create a drama that is "enacted within a breathing and buoyant metaphor" -Paul Theroux. Daws compellingly innovative first play reveals itself as alternately a verbal and physical comedy of control capsizing, and an active mediation on nature and science. "Brilliant, searching, original, and lit by a coruscating wit, BITE THE HAND is a work of startling invention and revelation" -W.S. Merwin. Daws has written eleven books and won several international awards for his documentary films. He currently lives in Honolulu where he is developing a musical theatre project.

Bite the Hand

Dramas & Plays

El Leon Literary Arts Books

Hawaii, 1959-1989: The First Thirty Years of the Aloha State With Memorable Photographs from the Honolulu Advertiser

Mutual Pub Co

The stories of five famous westerners who found their fate in the islands: John Williams, Herman Melville, Walter Murray Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin.

A Dream of Islands: Voyages of Self Discovery in the South Seas

Travel

Australia & South Pacific

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