a portfolio of rare and ruthless personalities that is calculated to make the curliest hair stand straight on end.”- The New York Times
“The best book about those far-scattered islands that has appeared in a long time.
From lifelong buccaneers to lapsed noblemen, in Michener and Day’s capable hands these rogues become the stuff of legend.īONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise offers portraits of ten scandalous men and women, some infamous and some overlooked, including Sam Comstock, a mutinous sailor whose delusions of grandeur became a nightmare Will Mariner, a golden-haired youth who used his charm to win over his captors and William Bligh, the notorious HMS Bounty captain who may not have been the monster history remembers him as. Michener returns to the most dazzling place on Earth: the islands that inspired Tales of the South Pacific. It is fiction mixed with history, of course, and colored by Michener's perspective and the times he wrote in, but for sheer ability to get a person interested in Hawaiian history I think it's great - just have to remember it's not the gospel.įor a non-fiction coverage of Hawaiian history, take a look at Shoal of Time by Gavin Daws.įor a book that seeks to explain the Native Hawaiian point of view and why there is a sovereignty movement today, this one seems to get more endorsement from Hawaiians:Īn article you might like from Honolulu paper, published when Michener died, discusses a bit of what you ask about.In a thrilling collection of nonfiction adventure stories, James A. His wife was Asian and they experienced the prejudice here first hand. Well, first, I am not a Hawaiian so I would never speak for anyone, but as a reader of the book I'd say Michener is much more interested in the struggles of the Asian immigrants than the native Hawaiians.
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