“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
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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’ ... Read More
Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association author interviews
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