Libro I Myself Have Seen Itthe Myth of Hawaii (National Geographic Directions) De Susanna Moore; Elizabeth Newhouse

portada I Myself Have Seen Itthe Myth of Hawaii (National Geographic Directions)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

National Geographic Society

Autor

Susanna Moore; Elizabeth Newhouse

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0792265289

ISBN13

9780792265283

N° edición

I Myself Have Seen Itthe Myth of Hawaii (National Geographic Directions)

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The islands of Hawaii have often served Susanna Moore as the canvas for her lush and haunting novels. In I Myself have Seen It, she proves the mystery, beauty, and myth of her native islands to be every bit as compelling as her fiction. She interweaves her own memories of growing up in Honolulu in the 1950s and '60s with a concise chronicle of Hawaii's two-hundred-year encounter with the West. Seeking the elusive heart of Hawaii, Moore revisits the small rural island of Kauai. In the breathtaking landscape, she discovers that old, unwritten songs of Polynesia have survived despite the onslaught of missionaries in the early 18th century, the establishment of Hawaiian-language newspapers, and foreign attempts to free Hawaiians of their pagan superstitions. These songs and the ones engendered by them, written by queens and hula masters alike, become the centerpiece for Moore's mesmerizing discovery of the real Hawaii.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.