Author: Archibald Menzies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Journal of Archibald Menzies, kept during his three visits to the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands when acting as surgeon and naturalist on board H.M.S. Discovery, under Captain George Vancouver, in the years 1792-1794. He explored the interior of Hawaii and west Maui, was the first white man to scale Hualalai and the first white man to reach the summit of snow-clad Mauna Loa.
Hawaii Nei 128 Years Ago
Author: Archibald Menzies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Journal of Archibald Menzies, kept during his three visits to the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands when acting as surgeon and naturalist on board H.M.S. Discovery, under Captain George Vancouver, in the years 1792-1794. He explored the interior of Hawaii and west Maui, was the first white man to scale Hualalai and the first white man to reach the summit of snow-clad Mauna Loa.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Journal of Archibald Menzies, kept during his three visits to the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands when acting as surgeon and naturalist on board H.M.S. Discovery, under Captain George Vancouver, in the years 1792-1794. He explored the interior of Hawaii and west Maui, was the first white man to scale Hualalai and the first white man to reach the summit of snow-clad Mauna Loa.
A Cultural History of Three Traditional Hawaiian Sites on the West Coast of Hawai'i Island
Author: Linda W. Greene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Historic resource study for three Hawaiian units of the National Park System including Pu'ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site, and Kaloko - Honokōhau and Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Parks locate on the west coast of the Island of Hawai'i with the focus on the Pu'ukoholā Heiau.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Historic resource study for three Hawaiian units of the National Park System including Pu'ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site, and Kaloko - Honokōhau and Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Parks locate on the west coast of the Island of Hawai'i with the focus on the Pu'ukoholā Heiau.
Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society
Author: Hawaiian Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Many of the reports include papers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Many of the reports include papers.
A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands
Author: E. Alison Kay
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824816599
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824816599
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520303415
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook’s encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520303415
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire archipelago. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from Captain James Cook’s encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems.
A Voyage to the North West Side of America
Author: Robert Galois
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774840013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.
Journal of Botany
Journal of Botany, British and Foreign
Author: Berthold Seemann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Wet and the Dry
Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226437491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation systems in the development of complex sociopolitical structures. Examining research on cultural adaptation and ecology in Western Polynesia and utilizing extensive data from a variety of important South Pacific sites, Kirch not only reveals how particular systems of production developed within the constraints imposed by environmental conditions, but also explores the tension that arises between contrasting productive systems with differential abilities to produce surplus. He shows that the near total neglect of short-fallow dryland cultivation, as well as arboriculture, or tree-cropping, has seriously distorted the picture that archaeologists and anthropologists have of agricultural intensification and its relation to complex social structure. This work, likely to become a classic, will be central to all future discussions of the ecology and politics of agricultural intensification.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226437491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation systems in the development of complex sociopolitical structures. Examining research on cultural adaptation and ecology in Western Polynesia and utilizing extensive data from a variety of important South Pacific sites, Kirch not only reveals how particular systems of production developed within the constraints imposed by environmental conditions, but also explores the tension that arises between contrasting productive systems with differential abilities to produce surplus. He shows that the near total neglect of short-fallow dryland cultivation, as well as arboriculture, or tree-cropping, has seriously distorted the picture that archaeologists and anthropologists have of agricultural intensification and its relation to complex social structure. This work, likely to become a classic, will be central to all future discussions of the ecology and politics of agricultural intensification.
Russian View of Honolulu, 1809-1826
Author: Glynn Barratt
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Fascinating eye-witness accounts of Honolulu in the early 19th century are collected in this book.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773573496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Fascinating eye-witness accounts of Honolulu in the early 19th century are collected in this book.