Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii

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  • Author: Susanna Moore
  • Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd
  • Catalogue: 159135
  • Size: 17x13cm
Susanna Moore cannot remember her first encounter with the sea – it has always been part of her life. “Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii” is a marvelous book detailing how she grew up in Hawai’i in the 1950s in a paradise of colour and light, a five-day voyage away from the US mainland.

As a child she used to spend the endless days of summer with a pile of books under the palm trees near the beach. She could hear the whisper of the sea every day, and in the books of the great storytellers – such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Daniel Defoe – she found the stories that the waves and wind told her as she plunged into a world of literature.

This book is her recollection of that childhood in Hawaii, walking barefoot to school, experiencing adventures and sometimes the dangers of island life and encountering the culture of the native Hawaiians. It is also an anthology of some of the greatest writing about the sea that has shaped her understanding of that world.

Authors featured include:

Daniel Defoe
Herman Melville
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
Thor Heyerdahl
Virginia Woolf
D H Lawrence
Washington Irving
Robert Louis Stevenson