Unfamiliar Fishes
$37.15
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
6 March 2012
Summary
From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. From the arrival of the New England missionaries in 1820, who came to Christianize the local heathens, to the coup d’etat led by the missionaries’ sons in 1893, overthrowing the H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781594485640 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159448564X |
| Author: | Sarah Vowell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Riverhead Books,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 139mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“Sarah Vowell is an intellectual melting pot. Her cleverness is gorgeously American…” – Los Angeles Times
“Its scintillating cast includes dour missionaries, genital-worshiping heathens, Teddy Roosevelt, incestuous royalty, a nutty Mormon, a much-too-merry monarch, President Obama, sugar barons, an imprisoned queen and Vowell herself, in a kind of 50th-state variety show. It’s a fun book…[a] playful, provocative, stand-up approach to history.”—The New York Times Book Review
“As entertaining and personable as it is informative.”—Washington Post
“Sarah Vowell is for my money, the best essayist/radio commentator/sit-down comic and pointy headed history geek in the business.”—Seattle Times
About The Author
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell is the bestselling author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Unfamiliar Fishes, The Wordy Shipmates, Assassination Vacation, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot.
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