The adventures of Vela
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Author
Publication
2009 - University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, Hawaii
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100824834208
- ISBN-139780824834203
- Goodreads6684742
- LibraryThing9686236
- Library of Congress Control Number2009013798
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number318243271
- Better World Books9780824834203
- Open LibraryOL23202808M
Classifications
- DDC822/.914
- LCCPR9665.9.W46 A67 2009
- LCCPR9665.9.W46A67 2009
Description
"Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela, the Samoan song maker, poet, and storyteller - Vela, who was so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa. Follow Vela down through centuries as he encounters the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact and recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearless warrior queen, before whom travelling chroniclers still bow down today." "This novel stretches from hundreds of years before the arrival of Papalagi to the present day and fuses the great indigenous oral traditions of storytelling and Western poetry." --Book Jacket.
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