Paradise of the Pacific

Paradise of the Pacific: approaching Hawaiʻi

by Moore, Susanna

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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 to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, ship…

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  • Full title :Paradise of the Pacific : approaching Hawaiʻi / Susanna Moore.

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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 to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. 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. Susanna Moore pieces together the 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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 303 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780374298777, 0374298777, 9780374536176, 0374536171
  • oclc:ocn909538017
  • LC Classification:DU627
  • Dewey Decimal:996.9

Table of Contents

Map -- This realm of chaos and old night -- Awe of the night approaching -- The source of the darkness that made darkness -- The cloak of bird feathers -- One great caravanserai -- A pilgrim and a stranger -- A light to my path -- Crucified to the world -- Falling are the heavens -- The voice of land shells -- Notes -- Glossary -- Gods and personages.

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Subjects

15.90 history of Australia and Oceania Acculturation Acculturation -- History -- 18th centur… Conflit culturel -- Histoire -- 18e siè… Culture conflict Culture conflict -- History -- 18th cen… Emigration and immigration Hawaii Hawaii -- Conditions sociales -- 18e si… Hawaii -- Emigration and immigration --… Hawaii -- Émigration et immigration -- … Hawaii -- Histoire -- 18e siècle Hawaii -- History -- 18th century Hawaii -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e sièc… Hawaii -- Social conditions -- 18th cen… Hawaii -- Social life and customs -- 18… History HISTORY -- Oceania HISTORY -- State & Local -- United Stat… Legends

Writers

Moore, Susanna

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