Hawaii; Truth Stranger Than Fiction

by Larue W. Piercy

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566470625
• ISBN13: 9781566470629
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Hawaii: , 1985
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Find Out the Real Hawaii Story

I attend Hawaii's first church, Mokuaikaua Church (Congregatonal) on Alii Drive on the Big Island, and meet many visitors who have watched the movie "Hawaii" or read the book by James Michener. While Michener's story gives you a sense of the migrations of peoples to Hawaii, his work is fiction. For example, Michener's missionaries Abner & Jerusha Hale are fictional people. He had them arrive at Maui, whereas the true missionaries arrived in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island at a different time from Michener's novel. This book gives the facts that show us the real story is more compelling than the fiction. To get the pure Hawaii story without comparisons to Michener's work, check out "Hawaii's Missionary Saga" by LaRue Piercy.