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Author Burney, David A., 1950-

Title Back to the future in the caves of Kaua'i [electronic resource] : a scientist's adventures in the dark / David A. Burney.

Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 198 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
Contents Time's most important moment -- Proverbial tracks -- Constructing a "poor man's time machine" -- Owl omens -- Opening ancient doors -- Characters and a stage, but no script -- Fishponds -- A snails' tale -- Mauka marshes -- So what happened, anyway? -- Greetings from old Kauai -- Irrigating the future -- The tour -- Right here, right now -- Finding a future in the past.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Burney, David A., 1950- -- Travel -- Hawaii -- Kauai.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Hawaii -- Kauai.
Caves -- Hawaii -- Kauai.
Paleoecology -- Hawaii -- Kauai.
Prehistoric peoples -- Hawaii -- Kauai.
Human ecology -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- History.
Time -- Philosophy.
Kauai (Hawaii) -- Antiquities.
Kauai (Hawaii) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780300150940 (alk. paper)
0300150946 (alk. paper)
9780300163117 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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