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100 1  Moore, Susanna,|eauthor. 
245 10 Paradise of the Pacific :|bapproaching Hawaii /|cSusanna 
       Moore. 
246 30 Approaching Hawaii 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2015. 
300    303 pages :|billustrations, map, portraits ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and 
       index. 
505 0  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 landshells -- Gods and personages. 
520 2  "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"--|cProvided by publisher.
650  0 Social change|zHawaii|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Culture conflict|zHawaii|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Acculturation|zHawaii|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Legends|zHawaii. 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO,
       HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY).|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Oceania.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Hawaii|xHistory|y18th century. 
651  0 Hawaii|xEmigration and immigration|xHistory|y18th century.
651  0 Hawaii|xSocial conditions|y18th century. 
651  0 Hawaii|xSocial life and customs|y18th century. 
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