This book is Mark Panek’s sweeping, epic tale about the modern Hawai‘i we live in, the one we call our home, the one that is getting harder to live in every day, one that many of us scrape by just to survive. Before you even set your eyes on the first page, this book asserts itself as if to say, “This IS Hawai‘i.” And it is. So, for Lō‘ihi Press and Mark Panek to call their new novel Hawai‘i-ho, must get some major alas! Isle author Chris McKinney states this book is “a much-needed contemporary answer to James Michener’s Hawaii, takes Michener’s ‘golden men’ vision of racial harmony out back and beats it.” But it’s more than just Michener.
The story of modern Hawaii, and of this novel, is one of how disparate peoples, struggling to keep their identity yet live with one another in harmony, ultimately joined together to build America's strong and vital fiftieth state.Hearing the title of this book most people will automatically recall the epic James Michener novel-the one spawning multiple films, the one always recommended by tourists to people on Internet travel forums who ask “What Hawaii books should I read before/during my trip to paradise?” The impact of the missionaries had only begun to be absorbed when other national groups, with equally different customs, began to migrate in great numbers to the islands. They lived and flourished in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions and beliefs until, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrived, bringing a new creed and a new way of life to a Stone Age society.
The volcanic processes by which the Hawaiian Islands grew from the ocean floor were inconceivably slow, and the land remained untouched by man for countless centuries until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers made the perilous journey across the Pacific and discovered their new home. (In Hawaii, Pulitzer Prize?winning author James Michener weaves the classic saga that brought Hawaii's epic history vividly alive to the American public on its initial publication in 1959, and continues to mesmerize even today.
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