Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii (1866)

by Mark Twain

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The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the "loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean." This recording evokes the historical era with the eye of a verbal artist and the voice of the performing artist.… (more)

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Reprint of ed. publ. New York : Appleton-Century, 1966 (

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ME_Dictionary | Mar 19, 2020 |

This is Twain at his sarcastic, anti-imperialist best. There is a long passage about Hawaiian sugar production that I skimmed, and he has (some of) the typical prejudices of his time concerning Western culture and values, but his observations about Hawaiian politics and his descriptions of a pre-tourist Hawaii are insightful. Also,of course, there is his self-deprecating humor. His description of horseback riding in the mountains had me laughing out loud. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Mark Twain	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Day, A. Grove	Editor	main author	some editions	confirmed
Pechmann, Alexander	Editor	main author	some editions	confirmed

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1866

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA (O'ahu | Hawaiian Islands | Polynesia | Pacific)

O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA (Hawaiian Islands | Polynesia | Pacific)

Hawai'i, USA (Big Island | Hawaiian Islands | Polynesia | Pacific)

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We arrived here today at noon, and while I spent an hour or so talking, the other passengers exhausted all the lodging accommodations of Honolulu.

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The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the "loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean." This recording evokes the historical era with the eye of a verbal artist and the voice of the performing artist.

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