Kohala is a land of many waves of transformation. Waves of lava built its towering slopes. Waves of ocean carved its cliffs. Waves of people have called it home. Waves of change continue to define and redefine its past, present, and future.

Long before roads, plantations, and foreign maps imposed new names on old places, Kohala was a land of valleys, winds, fishponds, forests, ceremonial landscapes, chiefly power, and sacred obligation. 

This volume traces Kohala from its deep Pacific origins to the threshold of 1819--from the canoe lanes of China and Taiwan to the land divisions, water systems, and ritual geographies that sustained one of the most consequential landscapes in Hawaiian history. 

Drawing on mele, mo'olelo, genealogy, the earliest scholarship, Hawaiian-language newspapers, and contemporary research, this revised and expanded volume challenges the myths repeated as facts and attempts to restore women, places, and knowledge that flatter accounts have erased. 

Here you will find that Kohala is not scenery, it is source, authority, and living inheritance...and that is what makes Kohala Kohala. 

Richard Bodien 

752 p.