Bøger af Jan Tenbruggencate

Pineapple was not native to the Hawaiian Islands, yet it dramatically changed Hawai'i's landscape and society and helped to build the foundations on which modern Hawai'i now stands. Hawaii's Pineapple Century chronicles the growth of this fascinating, unique, and significant industry by documenting the development of the "crowned fruit" into an icon of the Hawaiian Islands. This illuminating history of Hawaii's pineapple industry explores the early pioneer companies, the effects of international competition, the exodus of local canning and the emphasis on fresh fruit, and includes a section on how to grow pineapple in your own garden.

In A Pocket Guide to Hawaii: Land of Volcanoes, the reader takes a great visual adventure. You can follow the life of volcanoes, from their birth deep under the ocean--like the still-submerged Loihi--to their growth into stone giants like Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, and ultimately through their erosion, decay and return to the world below the sea.

Generations of Hawai'i's residents have been raised on stories about the Menehune as magical and mischievous little people, living primarily in the mists of Island forests, in the history of our oldest places, and at the very edge of our vision. But Menehune are far more than a fairy tale, and there is ample evidence that the tradition has changed dramatically over time. Across 30 years of research, journalist and historian Jan TenBruggencate has tracked down the Menehune tale's many tendrils. Today's Menehune stories are drawn from separate traditions"€"the Menehune of O'ahu, the Melehuna of Kaua'i, and tales from other Pacific islands. The Menehune of the earliest stories in the earliest traditions are very different from those we recognize today. Menehune Mystery is a retelling of favorite narratives: The 'Alekoko fishpond, the Kk-a-Ola aqueduct, Laka's canoe, the wizard Kahano-a-newa and K-leo-nui, and Kamapua'a's house, among others. It is also a forensic analysis of the myth's trajectory. Were Menehune the ancestors of Hawai'i's people? Did the famous Wainiha Menehune census actually take place? Which storytellers carried the stories forward faithfully? Who were the narrators who twisted the tale to suit their own objectives? And what evidence exists that little people might once have existed in Polynesia?

Brief, illustrated history of the pineapple industry on Maui"€"a condensed version of Pineapple Century by Jan TenBruggencate. Pineapple's succulent combination of sweet, tart and fragrant has entranced folks for decades. For more than a century, Maui was the heart of the Hawaiian pineapple industry. The crowned fruit graced thousands of acres on the slopes of Haleakal, west and central Moloka'i and gentle hills of L na'i, the Pineapple Isle. Maui Pineapple: Golden Legacy of the Crowned Fruit reviews the storied history of pineapple on Maui, from its beginnings in the 1840s, when thousands of fresh fruit went by clipper ship to California, to Hawaiian pineapple's glory days of the early 1900s, and finally through the industrys contraction due to international competition. Today, fresh Maui pineapple is still available, and as lip-smacking tasty as ever. Jan TenBruggencate is a prize-winning writer and author of more than a dozen books set in Hawai'i. He was raised in a pineapple plantation town on Molokai, the son of a pineapple researcher.