The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai'i's Endangered Ecosystems - Frierson, Pamela
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A groundbreaking exploration of the unknown, outermost reaches of the Hawaiian archipelago

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A groundbreaking exploration of the unknown, outermost reaches of the Hawaiian archipelago
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Pamela Frierson is the author of The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawaii's Endangered Ecosystems and The Burning Island: Myth and History in Volcano Country, Hawaii, as well as many articles and essays about the Pacific world. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including The World Between Waves, A Thousand Leagues of Blue and Intimate Nature. She is one of forty-four writers invited by Barry Lopez to write original work for Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, featured on NPR¿s ¿Living on Earth¿ program. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a PEN Hawaii award, grants from the Hawaii Council on the Humanities, and fellowships from Breadloaf, Squaw Valley, and Island Institute. Raised in Hawaii, she lived for many years in the American West working as a country school teacher in Montana, a backwoods homesteader in Idaho, an apple grower near Californiäs Eel River, an employee of the Whole Earth Catalog, and was one of the founding publishers of the innovative quarterly Place Magazine. She has taught at the University of California at Davis and the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and was founder-director of the writers¿ conference: The Fire Within: Writing at the Volcano. She returned to the Islands two decades ago and lives on the slopes of Mauna Kea, where she grows tropical fruit and works as a freelance writer, photographer, and educator. Her photographs have appeared in several publications, including Wildlife Conservation, Christian Science Monitor, and the Los Angeles Times .