Gavan Daws is an American writer, historian and filmmaker residing in Honolulu, Hawaii. He writes about Hawaii, the Pacific, and Asia. He is a retired professor of history at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Daws is originally from Australia and got his B.A. in English and History from the University of Melbourne. He has a Ph.D. in Pacific History from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His best-known works are ''Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands'', in print since 1968; ''Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai'', the biography of a nineteenth-century missionary priest to Hawaii who served leprosy sufferers, and who has recently been canonized; and ''Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific.'' Daws co-produced and co-directed ''Angels of War: The People of Papua New Guinea and World War II'', which won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Documentary. His other work includes song lyrics and a stage play with music and choreography. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in Australia, and served as the Pacific member of the UNESCO Commission on the Scientific and Cultural History of Humankind.

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*1968: ''Shoal of time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands'', Macmillan, New York. *1970: ''The Hawaiians'' (with Robert Goodman and Ed Sheehan), Island Heritage, Norfolk Island. *1973: ''Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai'', Harper, New York. *1980: ''A Dream of Islands'', Norton, New York. *1981: ''Angels of War: The People of Papua New Guinea and World War II'' (with Andrew Pike and Hank Nelson), Ronin Films. Canberra. *1982: ''Night of the Dolphins'', Deakin University, Australia. *1984: ''Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai'' *1985: ''Land and Power in Hawaii'' (with George Cooper), Benchmark Books, Honolulu. *1988: ''Hawaii: The Islands of Life'', Nature Conservancy, Honolulu. *1989: ''Hawaii 1959-1989'', Publishers Group Hawaii, Honolulu. *1994: ''Prisoners of The Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific'', William Morrow, New York. *1998: ''Follow The Music'' (with Jac Holzman), FirstMedia, Santa Monica. *2000: ''Archipelago:The Islands of Indonesia'' (with Marty Fujita), University of California, Berkeley. *2002: ''Bite The Hand: A Play'', El Leon, Berkeley. *2006: ''Honolulu: The First Century'', Mutual Publishing, Honolulu. *2008: ''Honolulu Stories: Voices of the Town Through the Years'' (with Bennett Hymer), Mutual Pubiishing, Honolulu. *2009: ''Wayfinding Through the Storm: Speaking Truth to Power at Kamehameha Schools 1993-1999'' (with Na Leo o Kamehameha), Watermark, Honolulu. *2014: ''The Boy From Boort: Remembering Hank Nelson'' (with Bill Gammage and Brij Lal), Australian National University Press, Canberra.

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''(Harper Collins blurb)'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Daws, Gavan Writers from Hawaii Historians of Hawaii Living people University of Melbourne alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni 1933 births

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