Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898

by Jean Barman

Book Overview

Native Hawaiians arrived in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1787. Some went out of curiosity; many others were recruited as seamen or as workers in the fur trade. By the end of the nineteenth century more than a thousand men and women had journeyed across the Pacific, but the stories of these extraordinary individuals have gone largely unrecorded in Hawaiian or Western sources. Through painstaking archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082489278X
• ISBN13: 9780824892784
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"