Paradise of the Pacific : approaching Hawai'i

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Label

Paradise of the Pacific : approaching Hawai'i

Title remainder

approaching Hawai'i

Statement of responsibility

Susanna Moore

Title variation

• Paradise of the Pacific
• Approaching Hawai'i

Title variation remainder

approaching Hawaii

Creator

• Moore, Susanna

Author

• Moore, Susanna

Subject

• Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 18th century
• Hawaii -- History -- 18th century
• Hawaii -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• Acculturation -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century
• Legends -- Hawaii
• Social change -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century
• Hawaii -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
• Culture conflict -- Hawaii -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

996.9

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

DU627

LC item number

.M66 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult