Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
23.06.2023
Verlag
Pai'ea PressSeitenzahl
548
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/3 cm
Gewicht
898 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798218150143
"A novel about Kamehameha the Great, who rose from inauspicious beginnings on the Big Island of Hawai'i in the mid-1700s to conquer the entire archipelago by 1810. The founder of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha was born into a Neolithic society, unchanged for generations since the islands' settlement by voyagers from distant Polynesia a thousand years earlier. As a young man, Kamehameha witnessed the arrival in the Islands of the English explorer, James Cook, in 1779--a culturally seismic event for the Hawaiians. Kamehameha was the first among his people to grasp the transformative implications of Cook's visit, an understanding he would later turn to advantage in struggles with his rivals"--
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