Islands in a Far Sea
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Islands in a Far Sea

The Fate of Nature in Hawaii, Revised Edition

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Islands in a Far Sea

The Fate of Nature in Hawaii, Revised Edition

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the Revised Edition
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. English-Metric Conversions
  5. part one Island Evolution: A Hawaiian Primer
  6. 1. Out of the Earth
  7. 2. From the Forces of Life
  8. 3. Arrival and Adaptation
  9. part two :Th e Surrounding Sea
  10. 4. Blue Abyss and Twilight Slopes
  11. 5. A Place for Whales
  12. 6. The Coral Rim
  13. 7. Decline of a Lagoon
  14. 8. The Seal and the Turtle
  15. 9. Seabirds High and Low
  16. Part three: Shores of Many Moods
  17. 10. Lonely Rocks and Atolls
  18. 11. Coasts of Change
  19. Part four: Green Crags and Canyons
  20. 12. Rain Forests in Transition
  21. 13. Freshwaters
  22. 14. Dying Songs: Hawai‘i’s Forest Birds
  23. 15. Insects and Snails: Evolutionary Tales
  24. Part five: Volcanoes in the Sky
  25. 16. Cloudlands and Drylands
  26. 17. Alpine Fire and Ice
  27. part six: The Fate of the Living Land
  28. 18. Primeval Hawai‘i
  29. 19. ‘Āina and Ahupua‘a
  30. 20. The Remaking of Eden
  31. 21. Waves of the Future
  32. Notes
  33. Index