Hawaii Place Names

By Esther Mookini

Book Id: WPLBN0002096802
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 71.63 MB
Reproduction Date: 6/21/2011

Title:	Hawaii Place Names
Author:	Esther Mookini
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Geography, Anthropology, Recreation, Hawaiian Travel Sites
Collections:	Authors Community, Travel
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	University of Hawai'I Press


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mookini, B. E. (n.d.). Hawaii Place Names. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
In this latest book, John Clark, author of the highly regarded "Beaches of Hawaii" series, gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawaii place names associated with the ocean—the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most numerous and among the most colorful: from the purely descriptive (Black Rock, Blue Hole) to the humorous (No Can Tell, Pray for Sex). Clark began gathering information for the "Beaches" series in 1972, and during the years that followed interviewed hundreds of informants, many of them native Hawaiians, and consulted dozens of Hawaiian reference books, newspapers, and maps. A significant amount of the oral history he collected was unrecorded and remained only in his notebooks and memory. Hawaii Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites is the final product of those years of research, and like its popular predecessors, it benefits substantially from Clark's having spent a lifetime surfing and swimming Hawaii's beaches. Presented in the same convenient format as Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini's Place Names of Hawaii, this rich compendium of information on Hawaii's surf, shore, and beach sites will satisfy visitors and residents alike.

Excerpt
In 1966 the University of Hawaii Press published the first edition of Place Names of Hawaii. Written by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, it contained 1,125 entries, all of which were place names in the Hawaiian language. In 1974 the press published the second edition by Pukui, Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. It contained some four thousand entries, and this time it included place names in English and other languages. This edition, in the words of the authors, provided "a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings." During the years that have followed its publication, the second edition of Place Names of Hawaii has become a standard reference in the literature of Hawaii.

Related Titles City of Dreams- an Extraordinary Journey... (by Mark W. Medley) Ades Web Magazine: Cambodia Volume 5 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Vietnam Volume 6 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Brussels Volume 17 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Florence Volume 16 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Barcelona Volume 15 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Rome Volume 13 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: London Volume 12 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Southern Florida Volume 7 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Northern Florida Volume 8 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Paris Volume 10 (by Manuel Balossi) Ades Web Magazine: Venice Volume 11 (by Manuel Balossi)

Additional Books The Power of Our Words (by Liz Mcgrath) The Future of the Internet : And How to ... (by Jonathan Zittrain) Family and More : Enemies or Friends? (by Helena Harper) The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues (by Seymour Fine) The Public Domain : Enclosing the Common... (by James Boyle) Breathe Smart : The Secret to Happiness,... (by Aaron Hoopes) French Natural Remedies & Recipes From B... (by Christiane Guise) The Giant Mushroom (by Janaki Sooriyarachchi) Secret of the Sands (by Aren, Rai and E., Tavius) Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Co... (by Sam Vaknin) The New Engineering (by Eugene F. Adiutori) Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders (by Sam Vaknin)
Esther Mookini Hawaii Place Names (by Esther Mookini)
Non Fiction, Geography, Anthropology, Recreation, Hawaiian Travel Sites The World Factbook: 1987 (by Central Intelligence Agency) The Rosetta Stone, in Hieroglyphics and ... (by Samuel Sharpe) The Early Mapping of Hawai'I (by Gary L. Fitzpatrick) A Gazetteer of the Territory of Hawaii 1... (by John Wesley Coulter, Ph. D.) Hawaii Place Names (by Esther Mookini) Mapping the Lands and Waters of Hawai'I (by Riley M. Moffat) Mauna Kea (by Kepa Maly) He Moolelo Aina : a Cultural Study of th... (by Julie Leialoha) He Moolelo Aina : A Cultural Study of th... (by Kepa Maly) He Moolelo Aina No Kaeo Me Kahi Aina E A... (by Kepa Maly)