Honolulu, port of call : a selection of South Sea tales / edited by Joe Gores. - xiii, 283 pages ; 18 cm

"A Comstock edition." "First printing: November, 1974"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 283).

Introduction / [Joseph N. Gores] -- The inevitable white man / Jack London -- The Pele myth / Nathaniel B. Emerson -- Pele fascinates Lohiau / Nathaniel B. Emerson -- The last days of Captain Cook / James Burney -- The Isle of Voices / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The white man in Hawaii / Herman Melville -- The house of pride / Jack London -- Honolulu / W. Somerset Maugham -- Jack Nash / Eugene Burdick -- Kanaka / Joe Gores -- Typhoon / Joseph Conrad -- A basket of breadfruit / Louis Becke -- The knife / John Russell.

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Short stories, American.
Short stories, English.


Honolulu (Hawaii)--Fiction.
Hawaii--Fiction.