Hawaii"[A] mammoth epic of the islands, [a] vast panorama, wonderful". THE BALTIMORE SUN America's preeminent storyteller, James Michener, introduced an entire generation of readers to a lush, exotic world in the Pacific with this classic novel. But it is also a novel about people, people of strength and character; the Polynesians; the fragile missionaries; the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who intermarried into a beautiful race called Hawaiians. Here is the story of their relationships, toils, and successes, their strong aristocratic kings and queens and struggling farmers, all of it enchanting and very real in this almost mythical place. |
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Page 354
... ship that did the work . It therefore seemed to Whipple that the next logical step ought to be for his firm to buy the odd lots of oil outright and to hold them on speculation . Accordingly , he proposed that J & W acquire its own ships ...
... ship that did the work . It therefore seemed to Whipple that the next logical step ought to be for his firm to buy the odd lots of oil outright and to hold them on speculation . Accordingly , he proposed that J & W acquire its own ships ...
Page 462
... ship and said , " John , you'd better keep out of this . " " I can't be partner to such brutality , " the gray - haired doctor said firmly . " You afraid of blood ? " Hoxworth asked . " Or afraid of losing your investment ? ” Dr ...
... ship and said , " John , you'd better keep out of this . " " I can't be partner to such brutality , " the gray - haired doctor said firmly . " You afraid of blood ? " Hoxworth asked . " Or afraid of losing your investment ? ” Dr ...
Page 519
... ship the boy on one of the many H & H cargo carriers about to sail from Honolulu . To balk what they suspected was the old captain's plan , they prepared to ship Whipple back to New England , where in rather quieter quarters he could ...
... ship the boy on one of the many H & H cargo carriers about to sail from Honolulu . To balk what they suspected was the old captain's plan , they prepared to ship Whipple back to New England , where in rather quieter quarters he could ...
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