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Book Hawai i   Stolen Paradise  A Brief History

Download or read book Hawai i Stolen Paradise A Brief History written by Stephanie C. Fox and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the history that is part of Hawai

Book Hawai  i   Stolen Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie C. Fox
  • Publisher : Queenbeeedit
  • Release : 2017-11-24
  • ISBN : 9780999639580
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Hawai i Stolen Paradise written by Stephanie C. Fox and published by Queenbeeedit. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the history that is part of Hawaiʻi - Stolen Paradise: A Travelogue. For people with a casual interest in Hawaiʻi or formal students of history and culture, and either armchair or serious travelers, this book can serve as a fun starting point for more in-depth study of this fascinating, beautiful paradise.

Book Hawai i   Stolen Paradise  A Travelogue

Download or read book Hawai i Stolen Paradise A Travelogue written by Stephanie C. Fox and published by QueenBeeBooks. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to learn the history of Hawaiʻi, and get to know its culture and traditions through the convenience of a book? This one has it all: photographs, stories, and history, all told by a traveler who wanted to study that firsthand. What she compiled is a fun way to learn about Hawaiʻi, the result of her own, self-taught course about the Islands. It includes a bibliography and a glossary of Hawaiian words and phrases at the end, complete with a pronunciation key. As a bonus, the names, addresses, phone numbers, and websites of the places she visited are listed in the bibliographies of both San Francisco - a stop along the way to Hawaiʻi - and for Hawaiʻi itself. Here is a brief summary of the fun described in this travelogue: In October of 2012, the author and her parents took a trip to Hawai‘i, visiting O‘ahu and the Big Island. They stayed at a beautiful resort on O‘ahu called Ko Olina, which means “to be filled with happiness” in the Hawaiian language. They toured historic sites - ‘Iolani Palace in Honolulu and Hulihe‘e Palace in Kailua-Kona. They visited the dead sailors aboard the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial. They took a ride in an electric submarine in the waters off Waikiki. They drove down Saddle Road between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island, and then down Chain of Craters Road to see where Kilauea had erupted over the pavement and into the Pacific Ocean. They tasted Kona coffee and saw how it was grown, harvested, dried, and roasted. They attended a hokey lu‘au on O‘ahu and a wonderfully educational one on the Big Island. They walked through a tropical garden on each of the Islands that they visited, looking at orchids, butterflies, palm trees, macadamia trees, and cannonball trees. In short, the author led her parents on a fascinating tour of Hawaiian history, language, music, cuisine, culture, botany, zoology, and volcanology. It was the trip of a lifetime. After all, one can never taste, smell, hear, see, or touch enough of the paradise that is Hawai‘i.

Book Hawai i   Stolen Paradise  A Brief History

Download or read book Hawai i Stolen Paradise A Brief History written by Stephanie C. Fox and published by QueenBeeBooks. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the history that is part of Hawaiʻi – Stolen Paradise: A Travelogue. This history was originally written as the prelude to a travelogue about a trip I took in October of 2012 to Oʻahu and the Big Island. It includes details about the Hawaiian language, culture, agriculture, aquaculture, music, dance, cuisine, and the Hawaiian people, with a bibliography of source material and a glossary at the end. For either people with a casual interest in Hawaiʻi or formal students of history and culture, and either armchair or serious travelers, this book can serve as a fun starting point for more in-depth study of this fascinating, beautiful paradise.

Book The Paradise of the Pacific

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  • Author : George Waldo Browne
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 9781290882200
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book The Paradise of the Pacific written by George Waldo Browne and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Captive Paradise

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  • Author : James L. Haley
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2014-11-04
  • ISBN : 1466855509
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Captive Paradise written by James L. Haley and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient gods, sexual libertinism and rites of human sacrifice, and the rigid values of the Calvinists. While Hawaii's royal rulers adopted Christianity, they also fought to preserve their ancient ways. But the success of the ruthless American sugar barons sealed their fate and in 1893, the American Marines overthrew Lili'uokalani, the last queen of Hawaii. James L. Haley's Captive Paradise is the story of King Kamehameha I, The Conqueror, who unified the islands through terror and bloodshed, but whose dynasty succumbed to inbreeding; of Gilded Age tycoons like Claus Spreckels who brilliantly outmaneuvered his competitors; of firebrand Lorrin Thurston, who was determined that Hawaii be ruled by whites; of President McKinley, who presided over the eventual annexation of the islands. Not for decades has there been such a vibrant and compelling portrait of an extraordinary place and its people.

Book A Brief History of the Hawaiian People

Download or read book A Brief History of the Hawaiian People written by William De Witt Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Brief History of the Hawaiian People

Download or read book A Brief History of the Hawaiian People written by William De Witt Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paradise of the Pacific

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  • Author : Susanna Moore
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 142994496X
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by Susanna Moore and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise 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, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay—all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. 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. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic 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.

Book Paradise Discourse  Imperialism  and Globalization

Download or read book Paradise Discourse Imperialism and Globalization written by Sharae Deckard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.

Book The Paradise of the Pacific  the Hawaiian Islands

Download or read book The Paradise of the Pacific the Hawaiian Islands written by George Waldo Browne and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Real Hawaii

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  • Author : Lucien Young
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The Real Hawaii written by Lucien Young and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Return to Paradise

Download or read book Return to Paradise written by Wayne S. Wooden and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the dimensions and patterns emerging in the culture of Hawaii today? Return to Paradise uses a sociological analysis to examine the structural, historical, interpersonal, and contemporary patterns present in the Hawaiian Islands. By focusing on both third and fourth generation Japanese-Americans, Wooden provides insight into the dimensions of "local" culture. Relying on first-hand accounts from college-age youths, Return to Paradise examines the subtle changes that have occurred in Hawaii's young people. Other issues explored include the fluctuating economic and social impact of tourism, and the presence of an emerging "global" identity. Wooden updates and expands the discussion presented in his earlier work, What Price Paradise? Changing Patterns in Hawaii (University Press of America, 1981).

Book Tourism Management

Download or read book Tourism Management written by S. Mishra and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism Management, A Compilation Of Articles By Leading Experts In The Field, Is An Organized Presentation Of Perspectives On Tourism Management In India. The Chapters Are Written Keeping In View The Sensitivity Needed For Planning The Growth Of The Tourism Industry In India, Given The Complexity Of The Issues Involved. This Book - With Its Well-Researched And Documented Chapters And Its Coverage Of Contemporary Environmental Issues - Will Be Useful To Tourism Students, The Hotel Industry, The Ministry Of Tourism, State Governments And Planners.

Book Simon Leys

Download or read book Simon Leys written by Philippe Paquet and published by La Trobe University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning biography of one of the greats. Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. He died in 2014. Writing in three languages – French, Chinese and English – he played an important political role in revealing the true nature of the Cultural Revolution. His writing on China and on varied literary and cultural topics appeared regularly in the New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, Quadrant and the Monthly, and his books include The Hall of Uselessness, The Death of Napoleon, Other People’s Thoughts and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper. In 1996 he delivered the ABC’s Boyer Lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca, the Prix Guizot and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction. This substantial biography – recently published by Gallimard in France to wide acclaim and winning an award from the Académie Francaise – draws on extensive correspondence with Ryckmans, as well as his unpublished writings. It has been translated by an internationally renowned French translator Julie Rose (based in Sydney).

Book A Brief History of Hawaii

Download or read book A Brief History of Hawaii written by George T. Armitage and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the Beach

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  • Author : Jean-Didier Urbain
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780816634507
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book At the Beach written by Jean-Didier Urbain and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, when people think of vacation it's the beach they want--even when long distances must be traversed, the seashore is the place to escape the rigors of modern life. How did this come to be, and what does our ongoing love affair with the beach mean? How do shore vacations differ from traditional tourism, and what does this tell us about our fears and dreams? In At the Beach, Jean-Didier Urbain offers witty and insightful answers to these questions. Urbain traces the transformation of the beach from a place of mythological threats and a demanding workplace fraught with danger to a destination for medical treatment and the pursuit of pleasure. He looks to the emergence of the modern vacation in the nineteenth century, examines representations of beachgoing in literature and the arts, and shows the transgressive side of beach culture--from nudism to hedonism to various "scandals" about costume, behavior, and sexuality that make the beach the site of social spectacle as well as leisure. Urbain's ultimate focus is the paradoxical enterprise of the residential seaside vacationer, who travels in order to stay in one place and who leaves the everyday world behind to reconstruct an idealized version of it at the shore. He argues that unlike tourists, who move from place to place, beach vacationers are not seeking to explore nature, to discover other cultures, or even to "get away from it all"; rather, they are attempting to re-create their own identities through a simplified community they can no longer find elsewhere. Blending history with social observation, Urbain presents an original, incisive, and entertaining account of this enduring ritual of escape and recreation.