Have you ever wondered why the delicate white flowers of the naupaka grow the way they do? Long, long ago, a love blossomed between two young villagers--Naupaka, a kind and beautiful Hawaiian princess, and Kau‘i, a handsome and gentle commoner. Alas, society's ancient ways did not allow them to be [...]
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Follow Lono, a Hawaiian fisherman, as he discovers a wonderous world under the ocean waves. There he meets Kumuhonua and his daughter Hina-kauo, and explores a land filled with plants he has never seen before. With Kumuhonua's guidance, Lono learns about these plants, how they are grown and what the [...]
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Ho`oulumahiehie’s Hawaiian version of this grand tale makes up one volume of this pair of wonderful books, its companion text a full English translation by Puakea Nogelmeier. Each 500-page hardcover volume is the complete narrative of the tale, articulated with over 300 chants, and enhanced with an afterword, commentary and multiple indexes in the language of each text.

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