Description: An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.
Brief description: Kealani Cook is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, West Oʻahu. He is a Kānaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian raised in Waimea, Hawaiʻi Island.
Review Quotes: 'With this remarkable book, Kealani Cook dramatically expands our understanding of the Native Hawaiian and Oceanic past and speaks powerfully to the Pacific present. Meticulously researched and yet sweeping in its scale, Return to Kahiki reveals the often complex, sometimes contradictory, and always fraught way that Hawaiians thought about their place in the Pacific and engaged with other Pacific Islanders.' David A. Chang, University of Minnesota