Travel Reference
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Tabrah, Ruth M.
Ni'ihau: The Last Hawaiian Island.
Kailua, Hawai'i: Press Pacifica,
1987. Sympathetic history of the privately owned island of Ni'ihau.
Takaki, Ronald.
Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii.
Honolulu: University of
Hawai'i Press, 1983. The story of immigrant labor and the sugar industry in Hawai'i
until the 1920s from the workers' perspective.
Elbert, Samuel, and Mary Pukui.
Hawaiian Dictionary.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i
Press, 1986. The best dictionary available on the Hawaiian language. The
Pocket
Hawaiian Dictionary
is a less expensive, condensed version of this dictionary and ad-
equate for most travelers with a general interest in the language.
Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini.
Place Names of Hawaii.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1974. The most current and comprehensive list-
ing of Hawaiian and foreign place names in the state, giving pronunciation, spelling,
meaning, and location.
Beckwith, Martha.
Hawaiian Mythology.
Reprint. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,
1976. Originally printed in 1940, this work remains the definitive text on Hawaiian
mythology. Beckwith compiled this topic from many sources, giving exhaustive cross-
references to genealogies and legends expressed in the oral tradition. If you are only
going to read one book on Hawai'i's folklore, this should be it.
Beckwith, Martha.
The Kumulipo.
Reprint. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1972.
Translation of the Hawaiian creation chant, originally published in 1951.
Kalakaua, His Hawaiian Majesty, King David.
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii.
Edited
by R. M. Daggett, with a foreword by Glen Grant. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1990.
In this topic originally published in 1888, Hawai'i's own King Kalakaua draws upon
his scholarly and formidable knowledge of the classic oral tradition to bring alive an-
cient tales from precontact Hawai'i. A powerful yet Victorian voice from Hawai'i's past
speaks clearly and boldly, especially about the intimate role of pre-Christian religion in
the lives of the Hawaiian people.
