Unfamiliar Fishes is a vacation into a colorful and riveting period in history with America's favorite historical travel companion, Sarah Vowell.
Best-selling author, historian, and contributor to NPR Sarah Vowell uses her trademark wit to pen illuminating insights into Americas past with such works as The Wordy Shipmates. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook Sign up to. And therefore it will be a great and entertaining story of American history, told in Vowell's inimitable voice and in her unconventional style. Unfamiliar Fishes audiobook (Unabridged) By Sarah Vowell. There will be history and Obama and America and opportunistic missionaries and warring whalers and kings and queens. Add to Wish List Link to this Book Add to Bookbag Sell this Book Buy it at Amazon Compare Prices. She will explain how Hawaii is Manifest Destiny's plate lunch. 'Unfamiliar Fishes' is Sarah Vowells history of how Hawaii became a part of America. She argues that it's "breathtaking in its beauty, sometimes hideously developed, overwhelmingly religious, impoverished (except for pockets of staggering wealth), crass and spiritual all at once." In Unfamiliar Fishes, she will explore the exceptional history of Hawaii with her personal reporting and trademark smart-aleckiness to find out the odd and emblematic history of Hawaii, and how it got to be that way.
(Mar.Sarah Vowell thinks of Hawaii as the most American state. Outrageous and wise-cracking, educational but never dry, this book is a thought-provoking and entertaining glimpse into the U.S.'s most unusual state and its unanticipated twists on the familiar story of Americanization. Freely admitting her own prejudices, Vowell gives contemporary relevance to the past as she weaves in, for instance, Obama's boyhood memories. Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell ISBN 13: 9781594487873 ISBN 10: 1594487871 Hardcover New York, New York: Riverhead Hardcover, 2011-03 ISBN-13: 978-1594487873 Watch a video From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Vowell celebrates the early restoration of the hula, but she skims much of the Hawaiian Renaissance of the 20th century. In her usual wry tone, Vowell brings out the ironies of their efforts: while the missionaries tried to prevent prostitution with seamen and the resulting deadly diseases, the natives believed it was the missionaries who would kill them: "they will pray us all to death." Along the way, and with the best of intentions, the missionaries eradicated an environmentally friendly, laid-back native culture (although the Hawaiians did have taboos against women sharing a table with men, upon penalty of death, and a reverence for "royal incest"). Recounting the brief, remarkable history of a unified and independent Hawaii, Vowell, a public radio star and bestselling author (The Wordy Shipmates), retraces the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
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