Author : Joe Gores
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1471917649
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)
Book Synopsis Honolulu, Port of Call by : Joe Gores
Download or read book Honolulu, Port of Call written by Joe Gores and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honolulu: Port of Call is a unique collection of short stories of the Hawaiian islands brought together by Joe Gores: thirteen tales by legendary writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Joe Gores himself. Yet these are tales chosen to entertain, rather than literary gems. They paint a picture of a Hawaii before the high-rise buildings went up; an era of missionaries and merchants, sailors and whalers, of the drama of East meeting West before, finally, urbanisation and the tourist buck killed off the Polynesian way of life almost completely. Gores brings us a flavour of that lost way of life; a breath of the romance that still draws Western visitors to the islands in search of the exotic and, perhaps, of an innocence long lost.