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Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes

Isabella Lucy Bird

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: July 31, 2023

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Jul 01, 2023 Chrissie rated it really liked it

Shelves: usa, great-britain, travel, fauna, religion, classics, 2023-read, history, life-stages, flora

Available free at Librivox, read extremely well by Jane Bennett. Bennett's narration is as good as those on audiobooks you must buy! Search for the alternate title The Hawaiian Archipelago.

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So where are the Sandwich Islands and how did the name come to be?

“The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islets in the North Pacific, spanning 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaii in the south to the northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly the group w ...more

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