Mark Twain's "Letters from Hawaii" | Nowhere | People, Place, Time
Share on Infernal regions, excellent strawberries, weary wastes, opera-glasses, cataracts of fire, the Sandwich Islands & gouts of blood and snowflakes. (Intro) W hen thirty-year-old Samuel Clemens first visited the Sandwich Islands—as Hawaii was known to haoles starting with Captain James Cook—in 1866, he had not yet published a book and had been writing under his Mark Twain pen name for only three years. Bored with daily reporting for the Territorial Enterprise in boomtown Virg...
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