Lost Kingdom: Hawaiia's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa's First Imperial Venture

by Julia Flynn Siler

Book Overview

"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed." --Kevin Starr, historian, University of Southern California

Around 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians paddled thousands of miles across the Pacific and arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802120709
• ISBN13: 9780802120700
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.8"