Daniel Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. He is also a lecturer in environmental history at the California Institute of Technology, and an associate research professor at Claremont Graduate University.
“Lewis’s ideas are well thought-out, frequently innovative, and
coherently argued.”—Matt Merritt, Bird Watching
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored
by Choice
"The appalling story of the extinction of so many species of
Hawaiian birds has been told, but a book devoted to the beauty of
the birds themselves is a welcome event. Belonging on an
Island will be both an elegy and an important record of what
has been lost to us all."—W. S. Merwin
“I doubt there is another book that covers the subject of the
extinct and endangered birds of Hawaii so completely. The depth of
research is impressive and reflects, in part, Lewis’ affection for
the region.”—Joel Greenberg, author of A Feathered River Across the
Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction
“With insight, humor, scholarship, and love, Daniel Lewis
illustrates how and why the question of who or what “belongs”
somewhere is both deceptively complex and increasingly important in
today’s Anthropocene world.”—Robert J. Cabin, author of Restoring
Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawai‘i
“Daniel Lewis tells the riveting back story to humankind’s
colonization of the Hawaiian Islands. It is a story of extinct
flightless birds, remarkable scientific personalities, and clash of
cultures. Lewis’s fascinating story of Hawaii is, in microcosm, the
history of humans on our fragile Earth.”—Bruce M. Beehler, National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
“Belonging on an Island is powerful. It makes important additions
to our understanding of Hawaii’s birds and the people who cared
most about them. This unique and informative book considers what it
means for an organism to belong.”—John Marzluff, University of
Washington, author of Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our
Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other
Wildlife
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