book
Maui: The Last Hawaiian Place
Wenkam, Robert
Friends of the Earth, 1970
Early conservation argument with historical landscape photography documenting Maui before mass tourism
Robert Wenkam’s Maui: The Last Hawaiian Place documents the island before mass tourism transformed its economy and landscape. The thesis describes the photographs and text as recording what has been lost. The book functions as historical conscience — evidence of conditions that recovery might reference without pretending to restore.