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 Virginia City, Nevada, he sought broader horizons in travel writing. The Sacramento Union agreed to run...
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