The saga of a Hawaiian family, beginning in 1834 with the meeting of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor and a runaway Tahitian princess. It traces the family's fortunes all the way to the present, incorporating a great deal of history: whaling, labor unions, earthquakes and the Vietnam War. The author is of mixed Hawaiian and Anglo-American descent.
- ISBN10 0452274583
- ISBN13 9780452274587
- Publish Date 1 August 1995 (first published 6 May 1994)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 14 March 2001
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Plume
- Format Paperback
- Pages 492
- Language English