Product Description

Newly updated and expanded. Acclaimed for its beautiful photography [over 350 photos] and dozens of 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, beautiful 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 in stunning photography. 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 the islands' most beautiful and photogenic sights are located, and allows the visitor to preview ALL accessible 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 able to 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 of photography and reproduction is excellent: the Eastman Kodak Company is a sponsor.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #357445 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 164 pages

From the Author
Our acclaimed Photo-Finder Feature is unique to our "Driving & Discovering" books: 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 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 I personally wrote this book as well as made all of the 330 photos, I am able to 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 is. The quality of photography and reproduction is excellent: the Eastman Kodak Company is our sponsor.

About the Author
Richard Sullivan lives in Hilo, Hawaii's Big Island. He was a fine arts major at the State University of New York at Buffalo while working nights in his uncle's photo lab. His first professional photography job was as a freelance papparrazo in Hollywood. The idea for Driving & Discovering Hawaii guides was born out of an assignment for the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. Unable to locate the beaches and waterfalls the Times wanted him to photograph -even the Hawaii Visitors Bureau didn't know- he eventually found them, and decided a new kind of guidebook was needed. Driving & Discovering Oahu was the first book in the series, and was won the Best Hawaii Guidebook prize in the Hawaii Visitors Bureau/American Airlines Travel Journalism Awards.

Customer Reviews

Sounds like their competitors are jealous
After using this book on our 5th trip to Maui, it was like rediscovering the island all over again. We bought 4 Maui guidebooks this time and checked 3 others out from the library to see what might be new since our last trip three years ago. We ended up using this book for 95% of our trip, The reviews most recently posted on this page are oddly on the negative side, which seems strange given all the previous rave reviews for both this and the Oahu companion book (These criticisms sound so forced to us that we wonder if they were written by competitors!)...and the uniqueness of this book as compared to the others we read...especially the feature of showing on the maps the exact place the photos were taken. This is such an AMAZING idea, it's a wonder nobody thought of it before, and that no one else seems to have copied it. It influenced our choices of where to explore many times, mostly because the photos are so stunning. I have never seen a guidebook with more maps than this one or such detailed ones, so the person who said the maps are "vague" has us puzzled. All in all no other guidebook presents so much of Maui in such detail, and we have decided to go to Molokai on our next trip after being blown away by that island's beauty in the photos. We have never even seen another guidebook for Molokai, so its appeal as shown here comes as quite a surprise. We never thought it had anything to offer.

Buy this one
I like this book because it is big, bright and sunny. It's much better than Maui Revealed: better photography, bigger and better maps, better writing. Richard Sullivan is hilarious and tells you where to stand to get the best photograph. And he's right, every time. He made our trip out to Hana really fun, a real adventure. This book got us away from the poor Maui Revealed groupies and helped us find exquisitely charming places like Keanae and Nahiku.

Driving & Discovering Hawaii: Maui and Molokai
A great read; especially for first time visitors to this location. We found this book extremely beneficial in planning our daily activities. The author gives candid descriptions and excellent insights, while telling you honestly the best and the not so good places to visit. A must read prior to and during your trip.