"With words and pictures, Robin Kaye opens the door to Lanai Island (population 2,000) for anyone who chooses to enter. Here is small-town America shaped by the culture of ancient Hawaii and the immigrant customs brought from Asia by the labourers who came to work on the pineapple plantation, the island's only industry."--back cover.

Lanai, a small island south of Maui takes the spotlight in Anderson Duane Black's comprehensive history book. In 1779, Captain Cook's expedition first saw Lanai. In the mid-nineteenth century, further explorations broughthaolesettlers to the shores of Lanai, resulting in mission stations opened by members of the Church of Latter-day Saints. Black's fascinating narrative tells of the island's transition from government by guileless natives to the establishment of control by James Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Company in the twentieth century. Interviews with prominent Lanaian families acquaint us with details of life on the island during its seventy-year plantation period.

Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. --from publisher description