Author: Owen, Jean A. (Mrs Visger):
Title: The Story of Hawaii.
Description: London, Harper & Brothers, 1898 Hard cover green cloth bds, gilt titles to upper bd and spine, spine age-darkened with large white no., label residue to btm quarter of upper bd, hardly readable word 'please' in biro to rear bd, contents clean and tight, pge edges rough-cut, occas. light tan age-marks, tissue-protected b/w frontis. and many further b/w plates, 'Keelby Church Institute Library' label to ffep with one date stamp of aug 1922, paper just peeling at front and rear hinges a little, pp219. Looking at the eight inhabited islands; the plant life; origin of the Hawaiians and their early customs and rites; the goddess of the great volcanoes; the first kings of United Hawaii; mission; Kamehameha III, his advisers and his aggressors; Prince Alexander, Prine Lot and Lunalilo; the last of Hawaiian royalty and the Hawaii of to-day.

Keywords: Hawaii history islands plants origin Hawaiians customs rites volcanoes goddess kings United Hawaii mission Kamehameha III advisers aggressors Prince Alexander Prince Lot Lunalilo royalty today


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