Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands. by Charles Nordhoff ...

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands. by Charles Nordhoff ...

Author: Charles Nordhoff

Publisher: University of Michigan Library

Published: 1875

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) was an American journalist, descriptive and miscellaneous writer. He was born in Erwitte, Germany (Prussia) in 1830, and emigrated to the USA in 1845. He was educated in Cincinnati, and was for nine years at sea, in the navy and merchant service; from 1853 to 1857 in various newspaper offices; was then employed editorially by the Harpers (1861), and for the next ten years on the staff of the New York Evening Post. From 1871 to 1873 Nordhoff travelled in California and visited Hawaii. He then became Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. His most widely known books are Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (1874), Communistic Societies of the United States (1857) and God and the Future Life (1881).


California and Hawai'i Bound

California and Hawai'i Bound

Author: Henry Knight Lozano

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2021-08

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1496227433

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Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.


Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Author: Henry Mills Alden

Publisher:

Published: 1874

Total Pages: 930

ISBN-13:

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Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.


Paradise of the Pacific

Paradise of the Pacific

Author: Susanna Moore

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 142994496X

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The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals—from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay—all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants—legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii—its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers—a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.