The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Isabella Bird visited the Sandwich Islands in 1871, when she was forty. Her letters home to her sister Henrietta have a remarkable freshness and spontaneity, and reveal the transformation of a Victorian invalid into a fearless horsewoman and enthusiastic mountain-climber, who thought nothing of riding for miles soaked with rain and fording terrifyingly swollen rivers. She undertook a thirteen-hour unaccompanied trek to the summit of the extinct volcano of Mauna Kea, revelling in the security with which she was able to travel and camp out without guides or companions. At the end of her stay she was able to make the perilous ascent to the summit of Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, camping for the night on the edge of the crater, at nearly 14,000 feet.
Hardcover: 426 pages
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Pubns; New edition edition (September 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0330350439
ISBN-13: 978-0330350433
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 5.2 x 7.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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This is a great eyewitness account of Hawaii in 1863, by one of the era's most intrepid travelers, after it had been impacted by its collision with the American and European powers but while it was still a robust independent Kingdom and before its forced assimilation into the USA. It really gives you a taste of the old Hawaii, if not the original Hawaii.
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