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Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell
Unfamiliar Fishes
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3.00 20
Format: audiobook
ISBN: 9781442337299 (144233729X)
ASIN: 144233729X
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Minutes: 8
Edition language: English
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hpagano
hpagano rated it
3.0 Unfamiliar Fishes
As always, Sarah Vowell's enthusiasm for her subject succeeded in getting me excited about history- this time about the history of Hawaii. I listened to the book read by the author to get the full effect of Vowell's deadpan humor. I came away from the book intrigued by whale oil and sugar, and, fo...
That's What She Read
That's What She Read rated it
0.0 Unfamiliar Fishes
I have been fascinated by Hawaii's history since I read James Michener's Hawaii in my pre-blogging days. From the moment the Polynesians set sail to establish a new life on the islands to be called Hawaii, its history has been bound up with various invaders of all types, from other Polynesian neighb...
Confessions of a Bibliophile
Confessions of a Bibliophile rated it
3.0
Much like my initial read of The Wordy Shipmates, this is a book that has an interesting idea and history to it, but takes a while to really grab me and start being interesting. While the missionaries' background and the history of the islands did give some new insight of how the missionary expediti...
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