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Hawaii Paperback - 2002
by Michener, James A.; Berry, Steve [Introduction]
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Previously a bestselling hardcover and a perennial favorite in mass market paperback, "Hawaii" is now available for the first time in a handsome, readable trade paperback edition.
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Details
- Title Hawaii
- Author Michener, James A.; Berry, Steve [Introduction]
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Third printing
- Condition New
- Pages 1136
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dial Press Trade Paperback, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A
- Date 2002-07-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0375760377
- ISBN 9780375760372 / 0375760377
- Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.6 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 4.06 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Geographic Orientation: Hawaii
- Library of Congress subjects History, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002021975
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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In "Hawaii, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaii's epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.
The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build America's strong and vital fiftieth state.
The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society. The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build America's strong and vital fiftieth state.