"If you're an information junkie and a lover of well-designed books, the new edition of the Atlas of Hawai‘i will excite you as much as it did me.... This is a very well-done piece of work--a beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of Hawaii contained in a single volume." --Honolulu Advertiser

"[A] monumental effort to compile into one beautiful volume information on basically almost anything you ever wanted to know about Hawai`i.... It belongs in every collection as the core source of information on Hawai`i." -Western Association of Map Libraries Information Bulletin

"The Atlas of Hawai‘i ... should be on the shelf of anyone who is interested in the state of Hawai‘i or the human and physical ecology of a north Pacific island group." --Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2001 (Download full review)

The long awaited third edition of the Atlas of Hawai`i is entirely revised in content and design. It is divided into six sections, five of which are abundantly illustrated. The first contains detailed reference maps with place names for towns, mountains, bays, harbors, and other features; geographical descriptions of the state and the main islands; and an introduction to Hawaiian place names. This is followed by four sections on the physical, biotic, cultural, and social aspects of the Hawai`i environment.

Geology, climate, the ocean, water, soils, and astronomy are among the topics discussed in "The Physical Environment." Next the special character of terrestrial and marine ecosystems is described in "The Biotic Environment." "The Cultural Environment" considers the people of Hawai`i. The diversity of the state's cultures is treated in chapters on history and languages as well as archaeology, religion, and the arts. "The Social Environment" treats such elements as the economy, government, and tourism. The sixth and final section comprises a statistical supplement, bibliography, and gazetteer for the reference maps. Readers of this new edition will find much new information, including topics (e.g., paleoclimate, threats to native ecosystems, Hawaiian sovereignty) not discussed in previous editions.

Sonia P. Juvik and James O. Juvik are professors of geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. Thomas R. Paradise is assistant professor of geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo.