“Peek is a storyteller extraordinaire, cut from an older cloth seldom seen today.”
Dr. Susan NajitaThe Contemporary Pacific Journal
“Tom Peek’s understanding of place, culture, and current issues is deep and respectful without being heavy-handed.”
Maile MeyerFounder of Native Books / Na Mea Hawaiʻi
“Peek is an author who takes the time to listen and observe, honestly portraying islanders of all hues and voices.”
Nelson HoPast chair of Sierra Club’s Hawaiʻi Chapter
“Peek writes about the land with respect. He writes about the Hawaiian spirit with reverence.”
Misty-Lynn SanicoFormerly of HawaiiReads.com, now with Bamboo Ridge Press
“Drawing on years of experience living and working with Native Hawaiians, Peek takes us into the spiritual and cultural depths of Hawaiian traditions…”
Dr. Edwin BernbaumAuthor of Sacred Mountains of the World
Tom’s new novel, Mauna Kea: A Novel of Hawaiʻi will be released on October 10 and is already available at some Hawaiʻi bookstores and on internet booksellers all across the globe. SEE BELOW FOR TOM'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS. This literary ...
After hitchhiking by boat through the South Pacific Islands, I landed my first job in Hawaiʻi, as a four-day-a-week tour guide for the Mauna Kea Observatories. I started there in 1988 and did my last stint as guide in 1996, ...
This winter has been a dramatic one on the Island of Hawaiʻi, with repeated snowfalls—including blizzards—on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa and one of the most spectacular lava lakes at Kilauea in memory. To Native Hawaiians these ...