Author

Publication

1998 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

82,750 words, Guess

Page Count

331 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing1072243

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3563.E75 F56 1998

Description

From a major American poet - a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. The story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers.

Subjects

Topics

PoetryHistoryHawaii -- Poetry.

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