Books about Hawaii : : Fifty Basic Authors / / A. Grove Day.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Day, A. Grove,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
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"What should I read about Hawaii?" Readers able to choose from the many thousands of books about Hawaii that have been printed over the years often wish for a reliable guide to the highlights of that vast domain. Such a guide is now available in this selective volume of reviews spanning the entire range of the literature of Hawaii from creation chants to the heralding of statehood in the twentieth century. A. Grove Day, whose lifework has been presenting literature of the Pacific to a worldwide audience, has selected fifty notable writers on Hawaii as the basis for a series of informal reviews keyed to what he considers the best work of each author. All the genres of Hawaii's immensely varied literary heritage are here: ancient myths and legends, logs of sea explorers, journals, memoirs, spiritual autobiographies, travel as well as tall tales, and modern histories, biographies, novels, sketches, and poems. Each review focuses on a single outstanding work and provides biographical information about its author. Anecdotes and accounts of how some books came to be written are also included, along with comments on other works on Hawaii by the same author and references to related books by other authors. The main entries are arranged chronologically according to the subject of the book under review, thus presenting in outline a history of Hawaii as reflected in the growth of its literature.Although each book chosen for review endures because of the intrinsic power or charm of its writing, the author's purpose is not to promote a canon of literary classics. In fact, over a hundred additional books about Hawaii, many of them as deserving of being read as the books reviewed, are listed and briefly described in the volume's appendixes. Together with its companion Pacific Islands Literature, Books about Hawaii offers to share the results of the author's more than thirty years of delving in libraries from London to Sydney and so to assist the reader on his own voyage of discovery.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: GOOD READING ABOUT THE FIFTIETH STATE -- [1] MARTHA BECKWITH (trans.). The Kumvlipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951; Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972 -- [2] DAVID MALO. Hawaiian Antiquities (Ka Moolelo Hawaii). Translated by Nathaniel B. Emerson -- [3] NATHANIEL B. EMERSON. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of American Ethnology, 1909; Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1965 -- [4] KATHARINE LUOMALA. Voices on the Wind: Polynesian Myths and Chants. Illus. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1955 -- [5] WILLIAM HYDE RICE. Hawaiian Legends. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Bulletin No. 3, 1923; New York: Kraus, 1971 -- [6] WILLIAM CHICKERING. Within the Sound of These Waves. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1971 -- [7] JAMES J. JARVES. Kiana: A Tradition of Hawaii. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe, 1857; London: S. Low, 1857. James Jackson Jarves -- [8] RALPH S. KUYKENDALL. The Hawaiian Kingdom. Vol. I: Foundation and Transformation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1938; reprinted University of Hawaii Press, 1947. Vol. II: Twenty Critical Years. 1953. Vol. Ill: TheKalakauaDynasty. 1967. Illus -- [9] JAMES COOK. The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. 3 vol. and portfolio. London: Hakluyt Society, 1955, 1961,1967 -- [10] GAVAN DAWS. Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands. New York: Macmillan, 1968; (paperback) Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974 -- [11] A. GROVE DAY and CARL STROVEN (eds.). A Hawaiian Reader. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1959; Popular Library, 1961 -- [12] MARY KAWENA PUKUI and ALFONS L. KORN. The Echo of Our Song: Chants and Poems of the Hawaiians. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1973 -- [13] GEORGE VANCOUVER. Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World in the Years 1790-95 . . . . 3 vol. and atlas. Illus. London: C. J. and J. Robinson, J. Edwards, 1798 -- [14] ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812. Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1816; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1967 -- [15] OTTO VON KOTZEBUE. A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the Purpose of Exploring a North-East Passage . . . . Translated from the German by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vol. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme& Brown, 1821 -- [16] DARWIN TEILHET. The Mission of Jeffery Tolamy. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1951 -- [17] JAMES A. MICHENER. Hawaii. New York: Random House, 1959 -- [18] HENRY OBOOKIAH. Memoirs. Edited by Edwin Dwight. New Haven, Conn.: Religious Intelligencer, 1818; illus. reprint Honolulu: Hawaii Conference of the United Church of Christ, 1968 -- [19] HIRAM BINGHAM. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands . . . . Illus. New York: Sherman Converse, 1847; New York: Praeger, 1969, facsimile of 3rd edition -- [20] LUCY GOODALE THURSTON. The Life and Times of Lucy G. Thurston. Ann Arbor, Mich.: S. C. Andrews, 1882; Honolulu: The Friend, 1934 -- [21] ALBERTINE LOOMIS. Grapes of Canaan. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1951; (paperback) Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, 1966, as Grapes of Canaan: Hawaii 1820 -- [22] FRANCIS HALFORD. 9 Doctors and God. Illus. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1954 -- [23] BRADFORD SMITH. Yankees in Paradise: The New England Impact on Hawaii. New York & Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1956 -- [24] WILLIAM ELLIS. Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii. Illus. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1825; New York: J. P. Haven, 1825; London: printed for the author by H. Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1826 -- [25] CHARLES S. STEWART. Private Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. New York: J. P. Haven, 1828; also A Residence in the Sandwich Islands. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1839. Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands . . . London: H. Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1828 -- [26] HIRAM PAULDING. Journal of a Cruise of the United States Schooner "Dolphin" . . . . in Pursuit of the Mutineers of the Whale Ship "Globe. " New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1970 -- [27] SAMUEL B. HARRISON. The White King. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950 -- [28] LAURA FISH JUDD. Honolulu: Sketches of the Life, Social, Political, and Religious, in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1880. 2nd edition, titled Honolulu Sketches . . . with a Supplementary Sketch of Events to its Present Time (1880). Honolulu: Star-Bulletin, 1928 -- [29] F. A. OLMSTED. Incidents of a Whaling Voyage . . . . Illus. New York: D. Appleton, 1841; London, John Neale, 1844 -- [30] CHARLES WILKES. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1843. Illus. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845 -- [31] GEORGE WASHINGTON BATES ["A Häole"]. Sandwich Island Notes. Illus. New York: Harper, 1854. -- [32] O. A. BUSHNELL. Ka'a'awa: A Novel About Hawaii in the 1850s. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii for Friends of the Library of Hawaii, 1972; (paperback) New York: Popular Library, 1973, with title of The Valley of Love and Delight -- [33] ETHEL M. DAMON. Koamalu. 2 vol. Illus. Honolulu: privately printed, 1931 -- [34] ALFONS L. KORN. The Victorian Visitors. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1958 -- [35] MARK TWAIN. Letters from Hawaii. Edited and with an introduction by A. Grove Day. New York: Appleton- Century, 1966; (paperback) Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1975 -- [36] CHARLES WARREN STODDARD. South-Sea Idylls. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. Summer Cruising in the South Seas. London: Chatto & Windus, 1874 -- [37] ISABELLA BIRD [BISHOP]. The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. Illus. London: John Murray, 1875; reprint of 7th ed., (paperback) Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1974 -- [38] CONSTANCE F. GORDON-CUMMING. Fire Fountains: The Kingdom of Hawaii, Its Volcanoes and the History of the Missions. Illus. 2 vol. London: Blackwood, 1883 -- [39] ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Travels in Hawaii. Edited and with an introduction by A. Grove Day. Illus. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1973 -- [40] LYDIA LILIUOKALANI. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen. Illus. Boston: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1898; Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1964 -- [41] JACK LONDON. Stories of Hawaii. Edited and with an introduction by A. Grove Day. New York: Appleton- Century, 1965 -- [42] CHARMIAN LONDON. Our Hawaii. Illus. New York: Macmillan, 1917 -- [43] ARMINE VON TEMPSKI. Born in Paradise. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940; New York: Hawthorn, 1970 -- [44] GENEVIEVE TAGGARD. Origin: Hawaii. Honolulu: privately printed, 1947 -- [45] EARL DERR BIGGERS. The House Without a Key. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1925 -- [46] MARJORIE SINCLAIR. Kona. New York: John Day, 1947 -- [47] CLIFFORD GESSLER. Hawaii: Isles of Enchantment. Illus. New York: Appleton-Century, 1937 -- [48] WALTER LORD. Day of Infamy. New York: Holt, 1957 -- [49] JAMES JONES. From Here to Eternity. New York: Scribner, 1951 -- [50] LAWRENCE H. FUCHS. Hawaii Pono: A Social History. New York: Harcourt, Brace&World, 1961 -- Appendixes SOME ADDITIONAL REFERENCES ON THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS -- Index of Authors and Editors -- Production Notes