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The island world of the Pacific : being the personal narrative and results of travel through the Sandwich or Hawiian islands and other parts of Polynesia / by Rev. Henry T. Cheever.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1851 Cheever
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheever, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1814-1897.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Volcanoes--Hawaii.
- Volcanoes.
- Oceania--Description and travel.
- Oceania.
- Hawaii--Description and travel.
- Hawaii.
- Hawaii--Relgion.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1851.
- Physical Description:
- 406 p. : plates, maps (1 fold.) ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, 1851.
- Contents:
- Introductory and general view of Polynesia
- Penguin roosts and albatrosses of Cape Horn and the Pacific
- Honolulu and its environs
- Hawaiian history and ethnology
- Natural productions and physical phenomena
- Hawaii rights and wrongs, politics and religion
- Voyage to Hawaii, and a home with the Kumu
- Romance of touring and prose of working
- The poetry of travel and the philosophy of living at a missionary's
- A barbecue with the natives, coral-hunting, and memorials of Kapliolani
- Diamond in teh rough
- How it was quarried; with notes on its locality and associates
- Exploration and review of the crater of Kilauea
- Comparison of notes on the volcano
- Earthquakes, nature, art, and religion at Hilo
- Statistical view of the resources, trade, commerce, population, piety, position, and prospects of the Hawaiian islands.
- Notes:
- Added t.p., illustrated.
- List of engravings: Honololu and its environs -- Portrait of Kamehameha -- Map of the island world -- Island world canoes -- Manuments of Easter Island and man of Tanna -- War canoe of the island world -- Feejee islander and Feejee weapons -- Patagonian penguins -- The wales off Cape Horn -- South Pacific albatross -- Diamond Head crater, near Honolulu -- Kaipuholo's bread fruit -- View of Kealakekua Bay -- Wonders of the deep -- Walls of the crater of Kilauea -- Kilauea by moonlight -- Mission premises of Hilo, and Mauna Kea -- View of volcanic hills and lava stream in Puna -- Cascade of the rainbow, Wailuke, Hilo -- Chart of the Hawaiian islands.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown leather, stamped in gilt. Front cover illustration of volcano, village, and canoe.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- OCLC:
- 1673040
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