Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Revised Edition vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. English-Metric Conversions xi
6. part one Island Evolution: A Hawaiian Primer 1
7. 1. Out of the Earth 3
8. 2. From the Forces of Life 25
9. 3. Arrival and Adaptation 35
10. part two :Th e Surrounding Sea
11. 4. Blue Abyss and Twilight Slopes 53
12. 5. A Place for Whales 67
13. 6. The Coral Rim 80
14. 7. Decline of a Lagoon 99
15. 8. The Seal and the Turtle 108
16. 9. Seabirds High and Low 125
17. Part three: Shores of Many Moods
18. 10. Lonely Rocks and Atolls 145
19. 11. Coasts of Change 159
20. Part four: Green Crags and Canyons
21. 12. Rain Forests in Transition 181
22. 13. Freshwaters 201
23. 14. Dying Songs: Hawai‘i’s Forest Birds 223
24. 15. Insects and Snails: Evolutionary Tales 247
25. Part five: Volcanoes in the Sky
26. 16. Cloudlands and Drylands 267
27. 17. Alpine Fire and Ice 289
28. part six: The Fate of the Living Land
29. 18. Primeval Hawai‘i 301
30. 19. ‘Āina and Ahupua‘a 313
31. 20. The Remaking of Eden 325
32. 21. Waves of the Future 343
33. Notes 365
34. Index 405