Maui: A History

By Jill Engledow and Cummins E. Speakman

Book Overview

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 P?rouse; 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939487390
• ISBN13: 9781939487391
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Mutual Pub
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.9"