The journalist Charles Nordhoff surveys the farming valleys, dairies, fruit farms and forests of northern California and Oregon for prospective settlers, and then sails to the Hawaiian Islands. There he describes Honolulu and Oahu, the volcanoes near Hilo, sugar culture on Maui, cattle and sheep on Kauai, and the Hawaiian people at home, and denounces anti-Chinese mobs in San Francisco.
A detailed traveller’s view of the Pacific coast and Hawaii a generation before annexation. Download the free EPUB.