In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881-1885 animals the people and the tradition

the people and the tradition of the the oldest and most prestigious outrigger canoe race in the world—The Molokaʻi Channel Race

as Map and Geography Librarian at Brigham Young University in Provo

A young man named Koa took his seed and carefully and lovingly tended it for a year

But systems for managing natural and human resources in the island chiefdoms were well established prior to their arrival

To the Hawaiians of old she was a living deity

In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881-1885 animals the people and the traditionEdited by David W. Forbes Hardcover This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kaleleonlani. In Haste with Aloha illuminates the last five years of the Queens life and makes available an important record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth century Hawaii.