Loyal to the Land is a sweeping history of one of the United States’ largest working ranches, the Big Island of Hawai’i’s Parker Ranch. In this wide-ranging and insightful book, illustrated with more than 250 historical photos, Dr. Billy Bergin first discusses the important Hispanic vaquero roots of ranching in Hawai’i. He then relates the histories of the …
Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
The discovery and settlement of the islands of the Pacific is the last and greatest story of human migration. The daring explorers who crossed the vast ocean that covers a third of the earth’s surface were the world’s first deepsea sailors and navigators. Thousands of years before any other peoples left the sight of land, they were venturing …