“Her book is in fact an astonishingly learned summation of the Hawaiian meaning, elegantly written, often delightfully entertaining and ultimately sad.”
“Susanna Moore’s stately and graceful history of the early centuries of Hawai‘i’s history, Paradise of the Pacific is here to entertain, effortlessly, and to instruct, slightly more demandingly.”
“Moore’s narrative, built around lengthy, unfiltered personal accounts, has a satisfying roughness to it and highlights the absurdities of colonial life”
