Title: Jaw-dropping glimpse of a lost world
Review: Full-page large-format photographs of Hawaii's unique creatures. It is not exactly nature photography, but rather, very intimate portraits of beings, plants and animals, on the edge of extinction, found nowhere else in the world but Hawaii. The color and print quality are glorious. One can only hope that this book develops a fondness from the viewer toward the denizens of this lost world that can motivate the political will to save and restore it---money to eradicate Miconia that threatens them all, programs to replant native Hawaiian forest, and programs to protect the land from introduced cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and subdivisions. Otherwise, in another generation, children will read this book, and all we will be able to say to them, "See what we once had."
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