Hawaii, James A. Michener
Hawaii, James A. Michener
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Hawaii

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Unabridged: 51 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2015

Synopsis

The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish themselves in the islands

About The Author

James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans,and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on February 22, 2024

My 10th grade reading teacher "Mrs. Fine" introduced me to this very large book. I only took her class "Hooked on Books" because I thought it was and easy A. Read several books, do book reports, get a grade. Hawaii was the first book she chose for me. I read the 1st 50 pages... no dialouge, just inf......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 03, 2017

I picked up this book in the library and one of the things I noticed first about the book was that the edges of the pages have become soft from the hands and fingers of hundreds of readers. The book has been rebound in one of those lovely flat blue library covers. In the back Marsha left her pho......more

Goodreads review by Gary on January 03, 2020

Hawaii - the place of my birth. My father was stationed there for a tour in the US Air Force and I just happened to be born during that time. Since we left when I was barely 18 months old I have no memories of this beautiful and enchanting place. So many years later and although I had a connection t......more

Goodreads review by Rhiannon on August 23, 2008

I needed a bottle of wine and some stimulants to get through this one, and I'm Hawaiian! The opening is enthralling but skip the entire middle section. I couldn't get past the missionary section and had to keep a barf bucket close by... I loved the rest.......more

Goodreads review by Mohsin on November 26, 2017

"Hawaii" book cover best suited for "West Wind to Hawaii". ON April 1 and 2 I read James A. Michener’s West Wind to Hawaii and loved it immensely. Actually, I read it in a volume of Reader's Digest Condensed Books whose editors have taken the liberty of describing the story of only the first generat......more

Quotes

“Wonderful . . . [a] mammoth epic of the islands.”—The Baltimore Sun
 
“One novel you must not miss! A tremendous work from every point of view—thrilling, exciting, lusty, vivid, stupendous.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“From Michener’s devotion to the islands, he has written a monumental chronicle of Hawaii, an extraordinary and fascinating novel.”—Saturday Review
 
“Memorable . . . a superb biography of a people.”—Houston Chronicle

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