Author: [Obookiah, Henry] Dwight, Edwin With An Introduction By Albertine Loomis
Title: Memoirs of Henry Obookiah: a Native of Owhyhee and a Member of the Foreign Mission School; Who Died at Cornwall, Connecticut February 17, 1818 Aged 26 Years
Description: Honolulu: Women's Board of Mission for the Pacific Islands, 1968. 150th anniversary edition, Previous owner's ink name on front end paper. Foxing from dust soiling along top edge. otherwise a clean, unmarked very good+ trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)/ no dust jacket. 8vo., Obookiah at age 15 shipped aboard the Triumph & eventually landed in Cornwall, CT, where he began his formal education. Little did he know that his presence would trigger everlasting change in the Sandwich Islands; 109 pages, foldout map intact & firmly affixed.

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