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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.