The Volcano Is Our Home
Subtitle: Nine Generations of a Hawaiian Family on Kilauea Volcano
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bloomington, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781452587530
Copyright date: 2014
First sentence: I was standing at my father's bedside at the hospice in Las Vegas where he and my mother had relocated from the Island of Hawaii four years earlier.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: ix; label: Chapter 1
title: Kahekili Kahuila (1756)*, Foreigners Visit the Island
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Kawekila Kahuila (1782), Death and Devastation in a United Kingdom
pagenum: 29; label: Chapter 3
title: Kawahinekipi (1808), Religious and Cultural Upheaval
pagenum: 46; label: Chapter 4
title: Kaapuiki Helemai (1827), Mass Conversion, Land Ownership and Sugar
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter 5
title: Kalua Kailianu Hoopii Kaopuiki (1864), Cultural Pride and the Overthrow of the Kingdom
pagenum: 92; label: Chapter 6
title: Joseph Kepa Akana (1897), Territory of the United States
pagenum: 119; label: Chapter 7
title: Henry Ah Lei Akana (1924), World War II and the Growth of Tourism
pagenum: 138; label: Chapter 8
title: Alan Robert Akana (1960), Tourists, Outsiders and Lava Flows
pagenum: 179; label: Chapter 9
title: Palani Robert Akana (1993), The Future of Hawaii
pagenum: 191