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3rd printing . . . December 1959 6th printing ........ April 1960
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Book of the Month Club edition published December 1959 2nd printing . . . December 1959 5th printing ........ April 1960
3rd printing . . . December 1959 6th printing ........ June 1960
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Appeared under the title THE BIRTH OF HAWAII in LIFE Magazine
October 1959
Sara Bara section appeared under the title FARM OP BITTERNESS in
Readers Digest condensed Book Club edition, Autumn 1959
Missionary section appeared under the title WEST WIND TO
HAWAII in Readers Digest condensed Book Club edition,
Winter 1960
Bantam edition published January 1961 2nd printing .... January 1961 9th printing ........ July 1962
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To
All the peoples who came to Hawaii
© Copyright, 1959, by James A. Mlchener. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by mimeograph or any other means,
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This is a novel. It is true to the spirit and history of Hawaii, but the characters, the families, the institutions and most of the events are imaginary—except that the English school-teacher Uliassutai Karakoram Blake is founded upon a historical person who accomplished much in Hawaii.
Contents
From the Boundless Deep, 1
II
From the Sun-Swept Lagoon, /5
III
From the Farm of Bitterness, 114
IV
From the Starving Village, 358
V
From the Inland Sea, 581 .
VI
The Golden Men, 778 Genealogical Charti, goy
From the Boundless Deep
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of years ago, when the continents were already formed and the principal features of the earth had been decided, there existed, then as now, one aspect of the world that dwarfed all others. Jt was a mighty ocean, resting uneasily to the east of the largest continent, a restless ever-changing, gigantic body of water that would later be described as pacific.
Over its brooding surface immense winds swept back and forth, whipping the waters into towering waves that crashed down upon the world's seacoasts, tearing away rocks and eroding the land. In its dark bosom, strange life was beginning to form, minute at first, then gradually of a structure now lost even to memory. Upon its farthest reaches birds with enormous wings came to rest, and then flew on.
Agitated by a moon stronger then than now, immense tides ripped across this tremendous ocean, keeping it in a state of torment. Since no great amounts of sand had yet been built, the waters where they reached shore were universally dark, black as night and fearful.
Scores of millions of years before man had risen from the shores of the ocean to perceive its grandeur and to venture forth upon its turbulent waves, this eternal sea existed, larger than any other of the earth's features, vaster than the sister oceans combined, wild, terrifying in its immensity and imperative in its universal role.
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