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Hawaii

For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its surf-beat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore …

Mark Twain Speech to a baseball team returning from a world tour by way of the Sandwich Islands (1889), in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1923)

The fiftieth state of the United States

The peach linen Hawaii Aloha hardcover by Assouline, with coral and black lettering above a stylised blue and coral sea turtle outlined in gold.

For your coffee table

Hawaii Aloha

Assouline

Hawaii island by island: volcanic coasts, rainforest roads and the birthplace of surfing.

Linen hardcover · Over 150 illustrations

25 × 33 cm

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An open spread from Hawaii Aloha, with a surfer on a red board riding beneath the curling lip of a towering turquoise wave.

Some of my Instagram posts from Hawaii

Olga in a long red dress sitting above the Kalalau Valley on Kauaʻi, with a rainbow over the green ridges and the sea.Olga walking along a white-sand beach on the Big Island towards a point of palms.Olga sitting on the bonnet of a red Jeep on a beach, watching the sun set over the sea.