Tag: Hawaiian

Designing Paradise The Allure of the Hawaiian Resort


Free Download Don Hibbard, "Designing Paradise: The Allure of the Hawaiian Resort"
English | ISBN: 1568985746 | 2006 | 216 pages | PDF | 11 MB
We all have images that pop into our minds when we think of Hawaii: palm trees, grass skirts, pineapples, ocean breezesHawaii is the definitive tropical paradise. It seduces and lures with its beauty, charm, hospitality, and comfort to create an almost mythical world of leisure. Nothing illustrates this better than the resorts that dot the Hawaiian landscape. Like portals to paradise on the islands’ shores, Hawaiian resorts have left their footprints in the sand and an unforgettable impression upon the world.

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Hiking the Hawaiian Islands A Guide To 71 of the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures (State Hiking Guides Series)


Free Download Hiking the Hawaiian Islands: A Guide To 71 of the State’s Greatest Hiking Adventures (State Hiking Guides Series) by Suzanne Swedo
English | October 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1493045024 | 362 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
Covering forty of the best hikes on the Hawaiian Islands, this revised and updated guide offers something for every hiker-from easy nature walks to strenuous day hikes. Each featured hike includes a route description; at-a-glance data such as distance and difficulty level; thorough directions to the trailhead; directional cues; and a detailed, accurate trail map.

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Cooling the Tropics Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment


Free Download Hi’ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, "Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment "
English | ISBN: 1478019190 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi-all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as "essential" for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawaiʻi to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawaiʻi’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can-and must-be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawaiʻi and beyond.

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