Complete and unabridged, with 24 full-page plates by Bernardo Daddi, Paul Gauguin and Noè Bordignon. Pele and the volcano legends of Hawaii - the fire goddess, her sisters, the chiefs who defied her and the lava that answered. Westervelt lived in the islands for forty years and took the chants down from those who still knew them. This edition adds a gallery of 24 plates bound with the text, among them paintings by Christian Rohlfs, Mary Young Hunter and Bernardo Daddi, alongside 35 illustrations restored and coloured for this printing.