Maui a History

Maui: A History reveals all the major events and personages in the island's saga--Polynesian settlement, pre-contact life, European discovery, whaling, the coming of American missionaries, the development of a sugar plantation economy, the arrival of Asian immigrants to work the fields, and Camp Maui/World War II. History makers include: the ruthless chief Kahekili; the French explorer La Pérouse; the powerful ruling queen Ka'ahumanu; Kamehameha III--Hawai'i's longest reigning monarch; missionaries Dwight Baldwin and William Richards; and sugar baron Claus Spreckels.