I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i
Editorial Reviews
Newsday, May 18, 2003
This deliciously satisfying travel memoir... lets you taste what is really [in Hawaii] beyond tourist traps [and] cellophane garlands.
Book Description
The Hawai'i of the travel brochures is a lush tropical destination for millions of visitors every year. But the familiar image of a Pacific paradise barely scratches the surface of the rich history and fascinating culture of the real Hawai'I-and in this evocative, eclectic, and unfailingly engaging book, novelist Susanna Moore shows us a hidden realm no tourist is likely to see.
She interweaves her own memories of growing up in Honolulu in the 1950s and '60s with a concise chronicle of Hawai'I's two-hundred-year encounter with the West-from the great explorer Captain Cook to the American missionaries who followed in his wake to the nineteenth-century haole landowners whose enormous plantations and close-knit society reshaped island life. By turns a sweeping, romantic tale of native kings and ancient ritual and a vividly drawn, personal memoir of a world that is now all but gone, I Myself Have Seen It unfolds against a fascinating backdrop of Polynesian myth whose ocean spirits and fire gods still cast powerful spells.
I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i,Susanna Moore,National Geographic,0792265289,20th century,American novelists,Biography,Essays & Travelogues,Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional,Hawaii,Homes and haunts,Moore, Susanna,Novelists, American,Travel,Travel - United States,United States - West - Pacific (General),Travel & holiday guides,Travel / General,Travel writing
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