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The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (A Kolowalu Book) Paperback - 1993
by P. F. Kluge
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- Title The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (A Kolowalu Book)
- Author P. F. Kluge
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 254
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of Hawaii Pr, Honolulu
- Date 1993-09
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG082481567X
- ISBN 9780824815677 / 082481567X
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.08 x 0.64 in (23.22 x 15.44 x 1.63 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Library of Congress subjects Micronesia - Social life and customs, Micronesia - Relations - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93006049
- Dewey Decimal Code 996.5
From the rear cover
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".