An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands: Letters of Carrie Prudence Winter, 1890-1893 9780824837228
When twenty-three-year-old Carrie Prudence Winter caught her first glimpse of Honolulu from aboard the Zealandia in Octo
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Providing a Context for An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands
Notes on Transcription and Research
Introduction
1. An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands
2. First Impressions
3. Meeting Royalty
4. The King Is Dead
5. Leprosy And Other Ailments
6. Maui Summer
7. Back To School
8. Politics And Punishment
9. Riding Mattie
10. Big Island Summer
11. The Queen In Crisis
12. Down With Malaria
13. The Revolution
14. Homeward Bound
Afterword
Appendix: Who’s Who In Miss Winter’s Letters
Credits
Selected Bibliography
Index
