Hawaiian Heritage Plants

Hawaiian Heritage Plants
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0824819942
ISBN-13 : 9780824819941
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Book Synopsis Hawaiian Heritage Plants by : Angela Kay Kepler

Download or read book Hawaiian Heritage Plants written by Angela Kay Kepler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 90 per cent of Hawaii's flora are found nowhere else in the world. This text presents a revised edition of a guide book to these and other plants that comprise some of the most unique ecosystems in the world. In a series of essays, the author weaves cultural and biological, historical and geographic, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of Hawaiian ecology into non-technical accounts of 32 plants important to early Hawaiians.


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