First published in 2001. This incredible journey began in 1887 and took King Kalakaua to the Unites States of America, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Siam, Singapore, Malaya. India. Egypt, Rome, London~ Belgium, Vienna, Spain, Portugal, France, and back to Hawaii through the United States again. A unique and insightful glimpse into these states and elites at the end of the nineteenth century full of fascinating events~ encounters and stories.
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First published in 2001. This incredible journey began in 1887 and took King Kalakaua to the Unites States of America, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Siam, Singapore, Malaya. India. Egypt, Rome, London~ Belgium, Vienna, Spain, Portugal, France, and back to Hawaii through the United States again. A unique and insightful glimpse into these states and elites at the end of the nineteenth century full of fascinating events~ encounters and stories.
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Fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 370 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 370 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very good. xviii, 290, [2] pages. Frontis illustration. Foreword by Kaori O'Connor. Illustrations. The author was the member of the Cabinet of Kalakaua, the last King of Hawaii. William Nevins Armstrong (March 10, 1835-October 16, 1905), was the Attorney General of Hawaii during the reign of King David Kal kaua. He is most widely known outside of Hawaii for the book Around the World with a King, his insider account of Kal kaua's 1881 world tour. When King Kal kaua visited New York City on his way to Washington, D.C. to negotiate the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, Armstrong was his liaison with the city. He was invited to participate in Kal kaua's 1881 world tour, an endeavor to encourage plantation labor immigration to Hawaii. Before sailing, Kal kaua appointed him Royal Commissioner of Immigration to authorize him to negotiate with foreign governments. This journey began in 1887 and took King Kalakaua to the Unites States of America, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Siam, Singapore, Malaya, India, Egypt, Rome, London, Belgium, Vienna, Spain, Portugal, France, and back to Hawaii through the United States again. A unique and insightful glimpse into these states and elites at the end of the nineteenth century full of fascinating events, encounters and stories. William Armstrong accompanied the King as a member of His Majesty's Government and Royal Commissioner for Immigration. His account of this remarkable circumnavigation, the first ever for a monarch, is told with humor and insight, although not always with sympathy for the King's aspirations or ideals. The book is a gem of Hawaiian literature. It provides us with insights into the personality of King Kalakaua, and into the mind of Mr. Armstrong. We are given fascinating glimpses of the courts of both Eastern and Western countries, including the Japanese Royal Court and that of Queen Victoria of England. Mr. Armstrong sometimes views his royal master with a jaundiced eye, but, to the reader, King Kalakaua emerges unscathed. Song writer, bon vivant, able politician, scholar, gentleman, and humanist, Kalakaua was devoted to his Hawaiian subjects and the to him. Nicknamed the Merry Monarch, he has, with the passing of time, emerged as a highly significant personality who has been more appropriately named the Magnificent Monarch.
The true story of the last Hawaiian king's journey (girdle) around the globe is an often fascinating and frequently frustrating account of David Kalakaua's quest for sugar plantation workers, as well as his own intellectual curiosity fulfillment. Fascinating as he is greeted by many of the nations visited as the monarch of a sovereign nation and generally welcomed with pomp and circumstance worthy of a visitor from afar, but frustrating as the narrator of the story, William Armstrong, has little patience nor respect for the Polynesian monarch he serves. Sadly the attitude of the narrator mirrors the general attitude of the missionaries and business men who would eventually open the doors to throw the monarchy and usher in annexation. Nevertheless David Kalakaua is an intriguing character and the book has so many moments of visual stimuli - the greetings in Japan, at the beginning, are stunning, as is the instant love as Siam as ?home?--I found myself casting it as a movie (starring Forest Whitaker as the King, directed by Terence Malick or Jim Jarmusch...). For those interested in travel or Hawaiian history you won?t be disappointed with this true story about the first monarch ever to navigate the globe.
