Hawaii's hidden treasures

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"Tature in Hawaii is at her most inventive and extravagant best," says Jl Cynthia Ramsay. With writer Ramsay and photographer Chris Johns, you'll go on a magicai tour of this chain of sea-anchored mountains that offers surprise after surprise: geologic, botanic, zoologic, cultural. Far from the nőise and neon of Waikiki, you'll climb high on slopes of a dormant volcano, where silverswords gleam like sequins on arid cinder soil. By boát or arduous hike, you'll reach into hidden valleys, wend through lush rain forests to see gem-bright birds flitting in the shadows, slog through eerie bogs, where rare birds and plants flourish in close symbiosis. Then step onto silken sands lapped by azure waters. "Altogether out of the rangé of ordinary life," 19th-century author Isabella Bird found Hawaii's fiery volcanic nature. Contact with that nature remains immediate and impressive. From Kilauea's rim geologists today monitor the restless, still-raging volcano "like an intensive care patient."... Tovább

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"Tature in Hawaii is at her most inventive and extravagant best," says Jl Cynthia Ramsay. With writer Ramsay and photographer Chris Johns, you'll go on a magicai tour of this chain of sea-anchored mountains that offers surprise after surprise: geologic, botanic, zoologic, cultural. Far from the nőise and neon of Waikiki, you'll climb high on slopes of a dormant volcano, where silverswords gleam like sequins on arid cinder soil. By boát or arduous hike, you'll reach into hidden valleys, wend through lush rain forests to see gem-bright birds flitting in the shadows, slog through eerie bogs, where rare birds and plants flourish in close symbiosis. Then step onto silken sands lapped by azure waters. "Altogether out of the rangé of ordinary life," 19th-century author Isabella Bird found Hawaii's fiery volcanic nature. Contact with that nature remains immediate and impressive. From Kilauea's rim geologists today monitor the restless, still-raging volcano "like an intensive care patient." Species here, the author notes, took "their own peculiar paths to the present." You will jóin biologists who study a miraculous array of plants and animals "found nowhere else in the world." You will discover, too, Hawaii's special cultural heritage and meet native Hawaiians who are trying to preserve ancient lifeways. All does not always go weil in paradise. Hurricanes ravage this fragile archipelago. Development and population pressures threaten the native heritage. And you'll meet aliens here: exotic plants and animals that put native species at risk. You'll follow concerned scientists and conservationists as they fight for the survival of the native species against the onslaught of interlopers. But most of all, you will find the beauty of Hawaii '5 Hidden Treasures. Vissza