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Paradise of the Pacific
Author | : Susanna Moore |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781429944960 |
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The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals—from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay—all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants—legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii—its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers—a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
Leaving Paradise
Author | : Jean Barman,Bruce McIntyre Watson |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2006-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824874537 |
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Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, Jean Barman and Bruce Watson pieced together what is known about these sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the United States. In addition, the authors include descriptive biographical entries on some eight hundred Native Hawaiians, a remarkable and invaluable complement to their narrative history. "Kanakas" (as indigenous Hawaiians were called) formed the backbone of the fur trade along with French Canadians and Scots. As the trade waned and most of their countrymen returned home, several hundred men with indigenous wives raised families and formed settlements throughout the Pacific Northwest. Today their descendants remain proud of their distinctive heritage. The resourcefulness of these pioneers in the face of harsh physical conditions and racism challenges the early Western perception that Native Hawaiians were indolent and easily exploited. Scholars and others interested in a number of fields—Hawaiian history, Pacific Islander studies, Western U.S. and Western Canadian history, diaspora studies—will find Leaving Paradise an indispensable work.
Paradise of the Pacific
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105016663317 |
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Landfalls of Paradise
Author | : Earl R. Hinz,Jim Howard |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2006-04-30 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0824830377 |
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"The only complete cruising guide to the islands of the Pacific . . . a must." —Islands "A trove of information for the cruiser planning to set sail for the Pacific. . . A very readable, easy-to-follow guide." —Santana The fifth edition of this sailing standard includes updated charts and text reflecting changes in regulations and facilities for most countries and specific ports of entry. New appendices include procedures for entry to Australia, which are more exacting than most Pacific landfalls, and an extensive list of information sources: cruising guidebooks, important general tourist guides, chart suppliers, and key web sites for the countries covered by Landfalls of Paradise.
The Paradise of the Pacific
Author | : G. Waldo Browne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1105262713 |
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Paradise in the Pacific
Author | : William Root Bliss |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B58764 |
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Lost Paradise
Author | : Ian Cameron |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013113124 |
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Paradise in the Pacific
Author | : William R. Bliss |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783385201576 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.