400 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout from photographs and other reproductions, including some maps and other figure drawings, etc.; pictorial title page and endpapers. 11x8½, color pictorial boards, matching color pictorial jacket from a painting by Michael Kotowski. First Edition.

Covers the Hawaiian sugar plantation industry, which owned and operated its own railway lines, transporting their goods to major distribution points to deliver around the world. These lines ran from the mid-nineteenth century to nearly the mid-twentieth century.