- Verlag:Aeneas Press
- Veröffentlicht:19.08.2026
- ISBN:9785486938382
- Länge: 92 Seiten
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Thomas Hill and Marianne North. Hawaii not as advertised: the missionary family that owns the island and cannot say so, a leper colony at Molokai, a sheriff who learns he is a leper, a Chinese merchant prince. London went to Hawaii in 1907 and again in 1915, and the title story so offended the descendants of the missionary families that the local papers denounced him. He wrote what he saw, including the leprosy, which he refused to make either heroic or disgusting. Fifty-five plates spanning 1845 to 1926, among them portraits by Edvard Munch and William Orpen, gather the faces of the island world London moved through.