Book description
To paradise they sailed—
There once was a world where hula dancers were experts at spear fighting, where a blind warrior taught his students healing arts...
where adventure ruled—
...as well as savage fighting. And where young people could build and sail a canoe on voyages to unknown lands.
where…
Why read it?
1 author picked Kolea as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel is like a wild ride on the ocean. I loved how it took me into the Indigenous communities in the Hawai’ian Islands prior to contact with Europeans and revealed their longstanding links to the Pacific coast of North America. There’s an epic story, and it’s chock full of marvelous detail about culture, food, clothing, migration, and worldview, and even explores the nature of time. However, what most struck me was considering what it would be like to orient my thinking to the sea and its rhythms instead of the land. It shifted the way I see the place…
From Peggy's list on pacific northwest history.
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