Pamela Frierson: 2 books
The Last Atoll
Exploring Hawai'i's Endangered Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The Last Atoll is a first-person account of journalist Pamela Frierson’s ten-year exploration of the exotic and ecologically significant small lands at the far northwestern end of the Hawaiian island chain. Frierson takes readers on a rare journey to eight of these remote and ancient islands, including...
The Burning Island
Myth and History of the Hawaiian Volcano Country
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Westerners-from early missionaries to explorers to present-day artists, scientists, and tourists-have always found volcanoes fascinating and disturbing. Native Hawaiians, in contrast, revere volcanoes as a source of spiritual energy and see the volcano goddess Pele as part of the natural cycle of a continuously...