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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.
The Paradise of the Pacific
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Author | : G. Waldo Browne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1105262713 |
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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.
The Paradise of the Pacific
Author | : Herbert Henry Gowen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : UOM:39015016373634 |
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Paradise of the Pacific
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Hawaii |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105016663317 |
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30 Days in the South Pacific
Author | : Sean O'Reilly,James O'Reilly,Larry Habegger |
Publsiher | : Travelers' Tales |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 193236126X |
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Few can resist the lure of pristine beaches, endless coral reefs, and blazing tropical suns. The South Pacific is still largely unspoiled for travelers willing to stray a little off the beaten path. This reference gives readers a bird's-eye view of the many island groups that make up the area.
The Edge of Paradise
Author | : Paul Frederick Kluge |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082481567X |
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In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back. . . . The result is a book the New Yorker called "remarkably effective," the Economist deemed "terrific"; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be "written from the heart." The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America's presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there's no way "a big place can touch a little one without harming it."
Paradise in the Pacific
Author | : William R. Bliss |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783385201569 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.