Maui a History

Maui: A History reveals all the major events and personages in the island's saga--Polynesian settlement, pre-contact life, European discovery, whaling, the coming of American missionaries, the development of a sugar plantation economy, the arrival of Asian immigrants to work the fields, and Camp Maui/World War II. History makers include: the ruthless chief Kahekili; the French explorer La Pérouse; the powerful ruling queen Ka'ahumanu; Kamehameha III--Hawai'i's longest reigning monarch; missionaries Dwight Baldwin and William Richards; and sugar baron Claus Spreckels.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mutual Pub
Published: 01/01/2001
ISBN: 9781939487391
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d