“The writer who plants the ground of experience with the seeds of imagination fits his or her reader with a new pair of shoes.”
—Lewis Lapham
“Peek is a storyteller extraordinaire, cut from an older cloth seldom seen today.”
“Tom Peek’s understanding of place, culture, and current issues is deep and respectful without being heavy-handed.”
“Peek is an author who takes the time to listen and observe, honestly portraying islanders of all hues and voices.”
“Peek writes about the land with respect. He writes about the Hawaiian spirit with reverence.”
“Drawing on years of experience living and working with Native Hawaiians, Peek takes us into the spiritual and cultural depths of Hawaiian traditions…”
Latest blog posts
Kilauea erupts again! Summit lava lake grows! UPDATED!
Pele has returned to her legendary crater home on Kilauea. Once again the summit lava lake is rising and our night skies are adorned with the auburn glow of her fiery spectacle. After six months of quiet, on the afternoon ...
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Superb new memoir: Hawai‘i couple’s daring quest in Chinese-occupied Tibet
In 1993, the caretakers of a Tibetan Buddhist temple in the Big Island’s Wood Valley risked their lives to smuggle an eight-year-old boy out of occupied Tibet. He was the reincarnation of Nechung Rinpoche, a high-ranking lama who had been ...
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Mauna Kea: cultural clash far from over
The protest roadblocks that kept telescope construction equipment off the summit of Mauna Kea from 2015 to 2019 are on hold, but the cultural clash over the future of Hawaiʻi’s most sacred mountain is far from over. Despite the protests’ ...
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