Acclaimed for its beautiful photography [330 photos] and 42 highly detailed maps, Driving & Discovering Hawaii: Maui and Molokai is considered a milestone in guidebooks. Areas of Maui not found in other guides, such as Maui's Upcountry and West Maui's Rugged North Shore, are explored in great detail here. Nor has any guidebook ever before explored the island of Molokai in such a detailed and comprehensive manner. Much more a guide to the physical beauty of Maui and Molokai than a guide to hotels and restaurants, every beach on both islands is described in detail and the majority of them are pictured. Five pages of beach charts outline the amenities that each strand offers. Secret beaches, hidden waterfalls and astonishing vistas are all displayed in "Driving & Discovering Hawaii: Maui and Molokai" in vivid color and with complete directions on how to reach them. Featured sections include Just Picture It!, a 4 page guide to photographing the islands; Best beaches Maui; Best Beaches Molokai; Best Hikes Maui; Best Hikes Molokai; Best Waterfalls Maui and Molokai; and a 37 page guide to the Hana Drive. Driving and Discovering Hawaii books are acclaimed for their unique Photo-Finder Feature: no other guidebook or guidebook series anywhere offers this valuable innovation. Each photo is numbered and corresponds to the same number on an adjacent map. This shows the visitor exactly where all of Oahu's, Maui's and Molokai's most beautiful and photogenic sights are located, and allows the visitor to preview ALL areas of the islands before visiting them to make the most of valuable vacation time. Since the author personally wrote this book as well as made all of the 330 photos, he was ableto link all of the book's information into one very complete, thorough and comprehensive reference work. This is one guidebook in which the photos are just as valuable a tool for the visitor as the text. The quality ofphotography and reproduction is excellent: the Eastman Kodak Company is a sponsor.
Hawaii resident and award-winning Hawaii guide book author Richard Sullivan has trekked every corner of Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, and The Big Island countless times over the past 25 years --and, as a long-time Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine photographer, most of California as well.
Richard Sullivan has explored multifarious island terrain ranging from the old growth koa forests on the flanks of Mauna Loa on the Big Island, to the miles of unpeopled sunny white sand beaches on sparsely-populated Molokai, to idyllic deserted island bays that most Hawaii residents don't even know about. Richard Sullivan has walked, swum, paddled, climbed and helicoptered his way up, down and around every Hawaiian Island time and again since 1985 in his quest to create the finest photographic images for his award-winning Driving & Discovering Hawaii guidebook series.
He is also the author of Reclaim Your Youth: Growing Younger After 40, which promotes strength training as the only genuine way to rebuild lost muscle and bone in both men and women.
