Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Hawai'i Author

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - June 10, 2013 - PRLog -- When the early European explorers traversed the globe, their journals held numerous accounts of Hawaiians enjoying surfing. Since Europeans of that era were not accustomed to swimming in their own cold waters it must have seemed like a dream to watch naked native Hawaiians riding the waves of a turbulent sea. Nowhere in the ancient world was surfing as ingrained into the culture as on the islands of Hawai‘i.

He‘e nalu (wave sliding) was the national sport and enjoyed by all. When a swell was up, whole villages were deserted as everyone fled to the beach to test their surfing skills. Legends of famous surf riders were retold in mele (song/chant) and fortunes could be decided on the outcome of a surfing contest. From these shores, modern surfing was born, along with the iconic romantic images of bronzed surfers, grass shacks and hula.

Surfing in Hawai’i was honored by the Hawaii Book Publishers Association with a “Ka Palapala Po’okela Award” in Excellence in “Aloha from Beyond the Sea” which recognizes the best Hawai’i book published over the past year in several categories.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!
Where:  Costco
4300 Nuhou St., Lihue (Kauai) HI 96766
When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.  

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Surfing in Hawai’i
by Timothy Tovar DeLaVega
Images of America series
128 pages/ softcover
Published: June 13, 2011