Paradise of the Pacific - Couverture souple

Moore, Susanna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374536171 ISBN 13 : 9780374536176

Editeur : FSG Adult, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susanna Moore is the author of the novels The Life of Objects, The Big Girls, One Last Look, In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties, The Whiteness of Bones, and My Old Sweetheart, and the nonfiction works I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i and Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii. She lives in Hawai'i and teaches at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FSG Adult
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374536171
• ISBN 13: 9780374536176
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible