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Sandwich Islands
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Price: |
9.00 |
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Title: |
A SCOTTISH-HAWAIIAN STORY - The Purvis Family in the Sandwich Islands |
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Author: |
Nancy Oakley Hedemann |
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ISBN: |
0-9644020-0-9 |
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Description: |
Softcover (6x9), self-published?, printed by Bookcrafters, Virginia, 1994. 386 pages. B/W photos. Maps of Scotland and Sandwich islands inside covers. |
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Condition: |
Clean and tight with moderate corner upturn, edge wear, spine fade. minor spots, scratch and dent on covers. |
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Summary: |
"This story of the Purvis family in the Sandwich islands is neither an historical novel nor an academic history. The narrative is based on the research of the last quarter of the 19th century in the Hawaiian Islands, in Britain and the Dutch East Indies. Where gaps of knowledge about events occur, the use of imagination has been made..." Raw data obtained from a variety of sources including collections of letters, notes, genealogy. Included are first hand accounts with people of the time, including royalty. The author herself "was born and reared in Honolulu, Hawaii by an American mother and a Scottish father. She was educated at Punahou School and obtained a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Hawaii... For 15 years she studied Hawaiian, American and British History, participating in a study of the immigration of Scots to the Hawaiian Islands..." CLICK THE "MORE IMAGES" LINK ABOVE TO SEE MORE OF THIS TITLE |
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