Product Description: Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf­ ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands) and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection...read more

Introduces the basic principles of geography as they apply to the Hawaiian Islands, and provides maps and information about Hawaiian geology, ecology, people, and economy.