Bishop Museum Press
Established in 1892, Bishop Museum Press remains a leader in the publishing of trade and scholarly works on topics related to Hawaii and the Pacific. We specialize in developing and producing works, for young and old alike, which celebrate our collective understanding and appreciation of Hawaii’s rich cultural and natural history.
1525 Bernice Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
Ph: (808) 848-4135 Fax: (808) 847-8260
E-Mail: press@bishopmuseum.org
Web: www.bishopmuseum.org/press
Events
Book Signings for Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo
Book Signings for Legend of the Gourd
New Releases
Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo
Historical Voice in Hawaiian Primary Materials, Looking Forward and Listening Back
Legend of the Gourd
Award-Winning Titles
Naupaka
The American Folklore Society Aesop Prize for Children's Folklore
Pulelehua and Mamaki
Ka Palapala Po'okela Award - Excellence in Children's Literature
Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants & Polynesian-Introduced Plants
Ka Palapala Po'okela Award - Excellence in Natural Science
Book Signings for "Mai Pa‘a I Ka Leo"
October 27th, 2010
November 12, 2010BOOK LAUNCH
Bishop Museum
Hawaiian Hall Atrium & Courtyard
5:30 pm Reception
6:30 pm Reading
7:00 pm Book Sale and Author Signing
RSVP by November 8
Call 848-4135 or email press@bishopmuseum.org
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Book Signings for "Legend of the Gourd"
October 27th, 2010
Meet author
Caren Ke‘ala Loebel-Fried
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November 5, 2010 Basically Books (Hilo, Hawaii) Black & White Night 5 pm - 7 pm For more info, call 961-0144.
November 6, 2010 The Living Arts Gallery (Hawi, Hawaii) 3 pm - 5 pm For more info, call 889-0739. November 12, 2010 BOOK LAUNCH Bishop Museum’s Hawaiian Hall Atrium & Courtyard 5:30 pm Reception, 6:30 pm Reading 7:00 pm Book Sale and Author Signin [...]
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Mai Pa'a I Ka Leo: Historical Voice in Hawaiian Primary Materials, Looking Forward and Listening Back
September 10th, 2010
In just over a century, from 1834 to 1948, Hawaiian writers filled 125,000 pages in nearly 100 different newspapers with their writings. The contents of those papers span a period when noted historians, expert genealogists, skilled storytellers, and cultural specialists were numerous, and their knowledge was intentionally recorded in writing for their contemporaries and for generations of the future.Though scholars have generated entire books of history and legend with what they've extracted from these papers, only a tiny fraction, [...]
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Ancient Sites of Oahu: A Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Places of Interest
September 10th, 2010
This Ka Palapala Po‘okela award-winning guidebook increased the general public's awareness of O‘ahu's ancient sites for the first time in the early 1990's. Now an entirely updated, full-color edition of the book includes numerous additional sites and expanded site descriptions.Although many remnants of Ancient Hawai‘i are accessible, often they are hidden and few sources provide such comprehensive interpretive information. In this easy-to-follow book, author Van James highlights the festures, legends, and archaeol [...]
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Naupaka
September 10th, 2010
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 together. Follow along on their journey as they seek to find approval from the gods and discover the fate that befalls them.
Lovingly told by Native Hawaiian cultural treasure Aunty Nona Beame [...]
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Legend of the Gourd
September 10th, 2010
In the district of Ka‘u, spread across the Kama‘oa Plain, live the Children of the Gourd. This magical tale delves into the past to reveal how the people of this region came to be named.During the old days of Hawai‘i, a young man and woman fell in love. Though both were descended from chiefs, their relationship was looked down upon. And so the young couple ran away together, accompanied by many who cared for them. They crossed the Kama‘oa Plain, along the flank of Mauna Loa, where they settled near the shore and t [...]
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Ka Mo‘olelo Hiwahiwa o Kawelo
September 10th, 2010
FORTHCOMING DECEMBER 2009
Originally serialized in the Hawaiian language newspaper Kuokoa Home Rula from January 1909 to April 1910, this new edition of Ka Mo‘olelo Hiwahiwa o Kawelo presents Ho‘oulumahiehie's text in modernized Hawaiian with notes and an introduction by Native Hawaiian scholar Hiapokeikikane Kichie Perreira.
Ho‘oulumahiehie's telling of the Kawelo story is the longest and most comprehensively written in Hawaiian on this larger-than-life hist [...]
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'Olelo No'eau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings
September 10th, 2010
This extraordinary collection of Hawaiian sayings--collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui--offers a unique opportunity to savor the wisdom, poetic beauty, and earthy humor of these finely crafted expressions. The sayings may be appreciated individually and collectively for their aesthetic, historic, and educational values. They reveal ever deeper layers of meaning, giving understanding not only of Hawaii and its people, but all of humanity. Since the sayings carry the imm [...]Read the rest of this entry »
Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants & Polynesian-Introduced Plants
September 10th, 2010
Native Hawaiian plants make up a unique flora because of the extreme isolation of the Hawaiian Islands. When the Polynesian settlers arrived, they encountered many plants that they did not know before. Over the course of generations, the Hawaiian people learned how to use the native flora to meet their needs. Along with the crops that the settlers introduced from the South Pacific, native plants became the basis for Hawaiian society and economy.[...]
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Ka Buke Mo‘olelo o Honorable Robert William Wilikoki (The Biography of the Honorable Robert William Wilcox)
August 30th, 2010
On July 30, 1889, Robert W. Wilcox mounted a failed attempt to overthrow the Cabinet of the time, and return the throne to powers that had been diminished through the "Bayonet Constitution" of 1887, which had stripped the Hawaiian monarchy of its power. Ka Buke Mo‘olelo o Honorable Robert William Wilikoki is the account of that one-day battle, of the legal trials that followed, and of the man who led the only armed rebellion during the Hawaiian monarchy.Thomas K. Nakanaela
Foreword by M. Puakea Noglemeier
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Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawai‘i
August 30th, 2010
Donald Abbott wrote his first account of Hawaiian ascidians in 1941, as an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii. That essay grew into this book on ascidians. A. Todd Newberry added to and enlarged the introductory sections with additional revision and enlargement of the species accounts in most families. Kendal Morris's drawings come directly from specimens of most taxa.Edited by Gretchen Lambert
$19.95
isbn 978-0-930897-94-9
softcover, 7x10, 62pp.
Available at Bishop Museum's Shop [...]
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Kaua Kuloko 1895
August 30th, 2010
Kaua Kuloko 1895 was printed in the same year of the famous civil battle between the patriots of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Republican forces that had overthrown the constitutional monarchy. The goal of the failed rebellion was to return Queen Lili‘uokalani to the throne. This is the only known text where the information and the sequence of events of that unforgettable period are gathered together and published in the Hawaiian language.Edited by Thomas P. Spencer
Foreword by M. Puakea Noglemeier
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He Buke Wehewehe Hua‘olelo Baibala (A Dictionary of Biblical Words)
August 30th, 2010
Reverend Ephraim Weston Clark's arrival in Hawai‘i in 1828 was the beginning of 35 years of missionary service in the islands. Clark's work included the publishing of Hawaiian language texts; his translation of this Bible dictionary in 1872 was the last of many such publications. In He Buke Wehewehe Hua‘olelo Baibala, not only words and meanings are presented, but quotes and verses where the word can be found are also included.Translated by E.W. Clark
Foreword by M. Puakea Noglemeier
$18.95
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Ka Buke Mele o na Himeni Hawai‘i(The Lyric Book of Hawaiian Choral Songs)
August 30th, 2010
A collection of nearly 300 songs that were popular and widely sung during the last decades of the 19th century. Prominent political figures and well loved ali‘i composers, such as Lili‘uokalani, Leleiohoku, and Kalakaua, are nicely represented in this group, which includes love ballads, tributes, playful mele, and compositions with cultural and historical comment.Edited by E.C. Holstein
Foreword by M. Puakea Noglemeier
Available at Bishop Museum's Shop Pacifica a(phone 808-848-4158, email at shop@bishopmus [...]
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Buke ‘Oihana Lapa‘au me na ‘Apu Ia‘au Hawai‘i (Book of Medical Practices and Hawaiian Prescriptions
August 30th, 2010
Buke ‘Oihana Lapa‘au, first printed in Honolulu in 1895, a vlauable collection of information on Hawaiian medical practices, based on the writing of the honorable ‘Elia Helekunihi. In addition, it presents select ali‘i genealogy and a detailed chronological description of significant dates in Hawaiian history from the time of Liloa through 1893.Edited by Thomas P. Spencer
Foreword by M. Puakea Noglemeier
$12.95
isbn 978-1-58178-021-5
softcover, 5.5x8.5, 144pp.
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