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Wai-nani

Wai-nani

Author(s): Linda Ballou

Location(s): Hawai'i

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance

Era(s): Turn of 18th Century

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Voice from Ancient Hawaii is a meticulously researched account of the Hawaiian Islands around the time of Captain James Cook. The major theme of the novel is the dismantling of the social hierarchal system based on kapu (taboo) that had been brought to the Islands by the Tahitians years before.
This is the story of the first High Chiefess of Hawaii,and the fierce, great warrior and magnificient ruler , Makaha, who unified the Hawaiian islands in the late 18th Century.

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Hawaii comes to life with great details of the islands and poetic language. Loo Gell –

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