Local author Susanna Moore recently released her latest book, “Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii.”
Local author Susanna Moore recently released her latest book, “Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii.”
The book will be the subject of a Kona Historical Society Hanohano O Kona Lecture Series presentation by Moore on Wednesday at West Hawaii Civic Center. More is the author of five fiction novels and three Hawaii-based, nonfiction books.
The presentation will also touch upon the court of Kamehameha I in Kona, his marriage to the Maui chiefess Kauahumanu, the death of Kamehameha in 1819, and the arrival in Kona in 1820 of the first company of American missionaries.
“In Paradise of the Pacific,” Moore pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-18th-century Hawaii — its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers — a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
The free lecture starts at 5:30 p.m. The event is presented by Kona Historical Society, in cooperation with the County of Hawaii.
Info: 323-3222.