Folding Cliffs: A Narrative - Hardcover

The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative.

Half Cloth with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. IX, 331 p.: Maps. Schutzumschlag berieben und mit Randläsuren, farbiger Kopfschnitt, angeschmutzte Vorder- und Fußschnitt, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, einige Anstreichungen und Anmerkungen im Buch / dust jacket rubbed and with edgewear, colored top edge, soiled front and bottom edges, pencil entry on endpapers, some annotations and markings in book. - From a major American poeta thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. The story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturinginspired by the poets respect for the people of these islandsof their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision. / CONTENTS CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN BORN THERE THE VALLEY THE CLIFFS THE SHORE CHARACTERS GLOSSARY. ISBN 9780375401480 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 639. Artikel-Nr. 1204562

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