Westerners?from early missionaries to explorers to present-day artists, scientists, and tourists?have always found volcanoes fascinating and disturbing. Native Hawaiians, in contrast, revere volcanoes
Far from the beach-towel?covered sands of Waikiki there is a hidden Hawai?i: remote islands and atolls that are some of the wildest?and at the same time most vulnerable?places on earth.In The Last Ato