Description
American Book Company, Published 1900. Hardcover, 208 pp.; 19 cm; Eclectic School Readings; double-page color map frontispiece; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings in text.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition, no dust jacket. Light green cloth stamped in dark green on front, rear and spine; front cover with palm-tree pattern and helmeted profile medallion, rear cover with American Book Company torch-and-wings device. Mild to moderate shelf and edge wear, light nicking and fraying at corner tips and spine ends, small dark spot on front cover, scattered reddish-brown spots on rear cover, spine toned darker. Binding tight. Endpapers moderately toned, page edges mildly toned. Mild pink discoloration at lower corner of p. 37. Pages otherwise unmarked. Color map bright. Geography reader written as a fictional journey: Alice Earle travels with her parents by Pullman car from Chicago to San Francisco and by steamer to Honolulu, then tours Oahu, Hawaii, Maui and Kauai. Krout, Chicago Inter-Ocean correspondent in Hawaii during the 1893 revolution and author of "Hawaii and a Revolution," writes in her preface that the book draws on two actual visits and that the Kilauea chapter was written from notes taken within sight of the crater; the preface presents the book as a way for American schoolchildren to learn about islands newly part of the United States. Map of the Hawaiian Islands includes an inset of Pearl River Harbor and vicinity of Honolulu. Photographs include the 1899 eruption of Mauna Loa, Honolulu harbor, a Japanese plantation house, the Molokai settlement and Iolani Palace flying the American flag; drawings include "Swimming with Boards" (surfing). Ends with a pronunciation guide to Hawaiian names and terms. Contents: The Voyage; Honolulu; The Drive to Waikiki; Grass Houses; Hawaiian Customs; The Pali; The Visit to Hilo; The Road to the Volcano; In the Crater; The Story of Kapiolani; The Feast; A Sugar Plantation; Maui; The Story of Captain Cook; Kauai and the Koula Falls; An Interesting Scotch Family; The Market; Sandalwood; Insects; Captain Vancouver; The First Missionaries; More about the Missionaries; The Old Mission House; The Story of Boki and Liliha; "The Life of the Land"; Mrs. Judd; Molokai and the Lepers; Father Damien; A Visit to Father Damien; Iolani Palace; Kapiolani; An Ostrich Farm; Hawaiian Schools; The Chinese and their Schools; Good-by; Pronunciation of Hawaiian Names and Terms.