Unfamiliar Fishes
by:
Sarah Vowell (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781442337299 (144233729X)
ASIN: 144233729X
Publish date: 2011-03-22
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Minutes: 8
Edition language: English
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...
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...
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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