Buy this book on-line Bates, George Washington : Sandwich Island NotesHarper & Brothers, New York, 1854
Original publisher's brown-purple cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Spine has a mostly brown color due to discoloration or fading. 5 1/4" x 8." 493 pages, complete. Twenty-two black-and-white plates, complete. List of Illustrations (plates) in front. Pages are very clean and intact except for light foxing (very occasional), offsetting on front and back endpapers, and a former owner's pencil inscription on front free endpaper. Covers are very clean and intact except for slightly bumped corners, fading or discoloration along spine, and moderate discoloration and staining on front and back. A Very Good copy. An autobiographical account by a self-described "haole" (derogatory term meaning "foreigner" or "outsider," especially of European descent, in Hawai'ian), George Washington Bates, about his journey to Hawai'i in 1853. It should be noted that his account is written from an expansionist perspective, and Bates pointedly advocates for the annexation of Hawai'i by the United States in this book. On Page 426, Bates discloses that he wrote his account "not only as a record of what I have seen, but to prepare the way for a few remarks on the 'Annexation' of that important group of islands to the United States of America." Bates addresses many aspects of his journey to the Hawai'ian Islands ("Sandwich Islands"). Bates describes, among a multitude of other subjects, his journey aboard several ships from San Francisco to Hawai'i, Oahu, Honolulu, seeing King Kamehameha III and recounting some of his speeches, public buildings in Honolulu, occupational statistics of Hawai'ian men and women, Hawai'ian culture, Nuuanu Valley of Honolulu, Diamond Head, Punchbowl Crater ("Punchbowl Hill"), Waikiki, paganism and Christianity in Hawai'i, Kaneohe, Hawai'ian domestic life, Royal Tomb and Hawai'ian cemeteries, taro ("kalo" in Hawai'ian) and poi, Ewa, Waialua, Mormonism in Hawai'i, Kauai, witnessing onboard floggings at sea, Koloa and its caves, a women's penitentiary, laws in Hawai'i, taxes and economy of Hawai'i, sugar plantations, Lihue, a moonlit excursion through nature, witnessing a lunar rainbow, Hanalei, Wailua, coffee plantations, Haena caves, some Hawai'ian legends, Waimea, Kolo, tobacco plantations, Molokai, Kaluaaha, Hawai'ian education, Hawai'ian hospitality, Halawa, "Palis of Kalae," Maui, Lahaina, corruption of Hawai'ian police, Wailuku, Makawao, Island of Hawai'i (Big Island), temple ("heiau" in Hawai'ian) at Puuepa, 'Iole, Mauna Kea, Waipio, Kawaihae, theories on the origin of Hawai'ians, and the prospective annexation of the Hawai'ian islands by the U.S.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Bates, George Washington : Sandwich Island Notes. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, libri rari, atlases, livres rares and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |