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Könyv Unlucky Star Pamela Jameson

Unlucky Star

Based on the life of Hawaii's Last Princess

Szerző: Pamela Jameson
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Independently published
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 12. 07. 2026
5 843 Ft
Unlucky Star is the captivating story of the life of Princess Victoria Lunalilo Kaiulani, Hawaii's l...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Pamela Jameson
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
392
EAN
9798185760956
Enbook ID
53204370
Kiadó
Independently published
Súly
524
Méretek
152 x 229 x 20

Teljes leírás

Unlucky Star is the captivating story of the life of Princess Victoria Lunalilo Kaiulani, Hawaii's last princess.
The niece of Queen Liliuokalani, Kaiulani died of a broken heart at the tender age of 23. In a letter to one of her many suitors, an English Count, she grieved, "I must have been born under an unlucky star, as I seem to have my life planned out for me in such a way that I cannot alter it."

This historical novel was set in motion more than 40 years ago when I was teaching voice in Honolulu. At the end of a very long week, I visited a bookstore in Sea Life Park and saw an arresting portrait of this beautiful but tragically sad young woman. My 18 years of research took me to rare book libraries to mine more than 250 books, pamphlets, translations, and histories from all over the world.

The haunting quality that enticed me to imagine and uncover the truth about Kaiulani's life will draw readers to engage with this fascinating but little-known period of American history and the devastating effects of worldwide imperialism in the 1870s-1900s. From the evils of "Manifest Destiny" to the tragic perspective of a gentle island people caught up in an explosive struggle for justice, Unlucky Star recalls a magical time of great turmoil. And tells of the cruel devastation of the native Hawaiian people, who, in less than 100 years following the stormy arrival of Western Culture, went from 600,000 to only 40,000 left.