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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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
