Hawaii Study Guide

Techniques

Like all of Michener's works, Hawaii is based on extensive historical research. For this particular work, Michener and his Hawaiian expert, Mrs. Clarence V. Taylor, read or reviewed over five hundred books on Hawaii, New England, China, Japan, and the South Pacific.

In Hawaii, Michener originates the novelistic structure which insures his place as a major American popular author. In the first section, "From the Boundless Deep," Michener makes the land of Hawaii itself one of the most fascinating characters in the work. He describes the islands' formation from their geological birth in volcanic fire to the arrival of the.....

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