In Haste With Aloha - Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma 1881-1885

Informationen zum Autor David W. Forbes is an internationally recognized historian and bibliographer specializing in aspects of the history of Hawai?i. He is also the author of the four-volume Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 (University of Hawai?i Press and Horden House). Klappentext This ambitious volume assembled by David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety-two previously unpublished letters! as well as excerpts from two diaries! written between 1881 and 1885 by Hawaiian royal consort Queen Emma Kalanikaumaka'amano Kaleleon?lani Na'ea Rooke. It illuminates the last five years of the Queen's life and offers a record of royal social life and customs in nineteenth-century Hawai'i.

Product details

• Authors: David W. (EDT) Forbes
• Assisted by: David W Forbes (Editor), David W. Forbes (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780824857837
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-5783-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, royalty, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Biography / Autobiography