Follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Isabella Bird, and other authors, explorers, and travel writers as they vividly describe their visits to 32 of Hawaii's most interesting sites.

This unique "then and now" guidebook provides a wormhole to the past, allowing you to discover how these places have changed over time and how they've remained the same.

It's a travel book, a book of Hawaiian history, and a guidebook all rolled into one, much of which is written by the world's best authors. It emphasizes how the Hawaiian Isles are truly the islands of dreams and magic.

No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one. No other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done.
            --Mark Twain