About the Author
David Forbes, who lives in San Francisco and Hawaii, has long been recognised as the world's expert on the bibliography of Hawaii. He is well known to all collectors, dealers, librarians and historians working in the area of historical Hawaiiana.His numerous publications include several works on Hawaii: especially noteworthy are his Treasures of Hawaiian History published in 1992 for the exhibition to honour the centennial year of the Hawaiian Historical Society, and his superb exhibition catalogue Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People 1778-1941, published by the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 1992