Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends - Couverture souple

Thrum, Thos C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566471664 ISBN 13 : 9781566471664

Editeur : Mutual Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Hawai'i's mysthical past lives in the Battle of the Owls, the transformation of the pig-man Kamapua'a, the strifes of the demigod Maui, the diminutive Menehune, and the legendary healers of old. First published in 1907, this collection by Thomas G. Thrum brought together a series of legends printed in The Hawaiian Annual by noted folklorists Emerson, Forbes, Gibson, Hyde, Nakuina, and Poepoe. New cover in 2004!

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Hawaiians. The world is under lasting obligations to the late Judge Fornander, and toD r. Rae before him, for their painstaking efforts to gather the history of this people and trace their origin and migrations ;but Fornander swork only has seen the light, Dr. Rae smanuscript having been accidentally destroyed by fire. The early attempts of Dibble and Pogue to gather history from Hawaiians themselves have preserved to native and foreign readers much that would probably otherwise have been lost. To the late Judge Andrews we are indebted for a very full grammar and dictionary of the language, as also for a valuable manuscript collection of meles and antiquarian literature that passed to the custody of theB oard of Education. There were native historians in those days; the newspaper articles of S. M. Kamakau, the earlier writings of David Malo, and the later contributions of G. W. Pilipo and others are but samples of a wealth of material, most of which has been lost forever to the world. From time to time Prof W. D.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mutual Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566471664
• ISBN 13: 9781566471664
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible