Alaska's Natural Wonders: A Guide to the Phenomena of the Far North Book

Then There Were None reads almost like a picture book for adults - which is not to suggest that the material inside is childish or insubstantial, but rather that the combination of words and pictures is something I haven't experienced in a long time, nor to such powerful effect. Noyes' book is based upon a documentary of the same name by Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Buyers, and does not attempt to tell what professional historians might call history. This is the tale of the Hawaiian people - not imagined, but real; told in poetry and well as prose; mixing spiritual explanations for the actions of place and humanity with political detail. As a primer on Hawaiian history from a Native Hawaiian perspective, the book is excellent - short, searing, and to the point. It prompted dozens of questions in me, and I'm happily off to read more.