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The history of Hawaii may be reported to be the story of arrivals - from the eruption of volcanoes on the sea floor 18,000 ft below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the puzzled birds blown using their company migratory routes to the first Polynesian adventurers who sailed over the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators searching for a Northwest Passage, soon accompanied by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay - all wanderers cleaned ashore, sometimes by accident. That is true of several cultures, but in Hawaii no person appears to have still left. And in Hawaii a couple of myths accompanied each of these migrants - legends that condition our knowledge of this secret place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning writer of In the Lower and The Life of Items, pieces along the elusive, remarkable story of later-18th-century Hawaii - its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers - a not-so-distant time of abrupt change in which an isolated pagan world of real human sacrifice and rigorous taboo, without a money or a written words, was confronted with the similarly ritualized world of capitalism, American education, and Religious values.
