The Unofficial Guide to Maui [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Rick Carroll, author of Madame Pele: True Encounters with Hawaii's Fire Goddess, is the best selling creator of Hawaii's Best Spooky Tales, the six volume sequel to Chicken Skin True Spooky Stories of Hawaii. He is now writing In the Path of Night Marchers online at www.hawaii.rr.com. A former daily journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle, Carroll wrote award winning travel and feature stories about Hawaii and the Pacific for the Honolulu Advertiser and United Press International. He is contributing editor to Hawaii Magazine. Marcie Rasmussen Carroll, freelance travel writer and former communications director for the Hawaii Convention and Visitors Bureau, earlier wrote political, environmental, and other news for the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and UPI in Atlanta. She was a Journalism Fellow in Asian studies at University of Hawaii and in energy studies at Stanford University. Together, the Carrolls, who moved to Windward Oahu in 1983, collected and edited Travelers Tales Hawaii: True Stories of the Island Spirit, an anthology one reviewer praised as the best collection of contemporary Hawaii travel stories. They are also the authors of the extensively revised and rewritten third edition of the Unofficial Guide to Hawaii.

Over 2 million people visit Maui every year, and for the tenth year in a row, Maui was voted the no.1 tropical island in the world in Conde Nast Traveler's 2003 Readers' Choice Awards.