Title

Isles of refuge : wildlife and history of the northwestern Hawaiian Islands / Mark J. Rauzon.

Author

Rauzon, Mark J.

Publication

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

205 p. : maps; 25 x 21 cm.

Subjects

• History
• Hawaii > History
• Zoology > Hawaii

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "A Latitude 20 book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fathoming the past -- Life on Nihoa -- Cromwell, do you copy? Over -- Moku Manamana -- Hōkūleʻa -- Return of the Iwi -- The coral kingdom of La Pérouse -- Tha Hawaiian monk seal -- The green sea turtle -- Albatross: lord of the wind -- The fabric of the sea -- Gardner Pinnacles -- Laysan Island -- Utter desolation -- The weed war and the cold war -- Lisianski Island -- Pearl and Hermes Reef -- Midway Atoll -- The Battle of Midway -- "Gooneys in the scavvies"-- Kure Atoll: dark side of the sun -- Recognition, restoration, and respect.

ISBN

• 0824822099 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0824823303 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00029874^

OCLC

43672509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library