BOOKS
Isle Pages
New releases from
Hawaii authors
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"The Discovery of the Palau Islands"
By Dr. Paul W. Dale
Rosedog, $17
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Of course, it's actually the "European" discovery of Palau under discussion here. Dale has bowdlerized and simplified a 1700s account of the islands' first major contact with the West, making it easy to read, if not too authentic in tone and flavor.
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"The Hawaiian Bat, Ope'ape'a"
By Marion Coste, art by Pearl Maxner
University of Hawaii Press, $12.95
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A pleasant, if somewhat wordy, book for kids with easily digestible biology science courtesy advisor Theresa Cabrera Manard.
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"Visual Maul" and "Visual Hawai'i"
Photographs by Douglas Peebles
Mutual Publishing, $22.95
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There are credits here for "text" by Jessica Ferracane and Derek Paiva, but I guess they're talking about the captions on Peebles' endless supply of pretty pictures. Although these are nice books, they all seem to blur together after awhile.