A field guide to the Hawaiian Islands: surfing intel and hiking trails, lifeguards and ecologists, island poetry and natural wonders.

Inside Wildsam Hawai'i, you'll find island stories from prize-winning writers, past and present; a detailed travel plan and profiles of 10 idyllic towns; interviews with watermen, anthropologists, taro farmers and shirt designers; delightful miscellany from the archives and selective recommendations about authentic Hawaiian experiences.

"When the first voyagers from Polynesia slid their dugout canoes up the sand shores, they found an archipelago of rainforests and sea cliffs preserved in what's easy to imagine as paradise. The place was pristine, original, changed only by lava, wind and waves."

145 pages, printed in the U.S.A.
Back-pocket size, 4 x 6.5 inches
Featuring more than two dozen local experts