Hawaii / James A. Michener

RATINGS

Overall: 4 / 5 stars

Text Level: High

Entertainment: High

Self-Help: Low

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, American Literature, Immigrants, Missionaries

Page Count: 1136

Buy on: Amazon

Review By: Galactic Geek (Inmate)

While this is a novel, it is a completely historical-inspired novel about the growth of Hawaii. The core story is about a group of missionaries starting in the 1820s that make their way in tiny ships to the Hawaiian islands to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the unchurched and unguided. Natives that migrated from Bora Bora, these families eventually marry and remarry both relatives and native Hawaiians creating an unstable self-governing body of three different factions of peoples of Hawaii. All three start a distrust of another and eventually, foreign ships from other nations start to mingle with these peoples creating interesting conflicts and stable family factions that ruled over Hawaii for generations. In James A. Michener’s book, there are portions of the book that you can’t put down. It’s amazing how long Hawaii remained almost untouched and native throughout history. Almost wild and free which even today some Hawaiians still relish those Gods of old.