A. Grove Day
Personal Information
Description
writer, teacher, and authority on the history of Hawaii
Books
Rascals in Paradise
Rascals in Paradise is a 1957 collection of ten nonfiction short stories co-written by James A. Michener (1907-1997) and University of Hawaii professor Arthur Grove Day (1904-1994).The collection comprises ten historical adventure stories about historical people and events in the Pacific islands. -Wikipedia
Pirates of the Pacific
Chronicles the adventures and exploits of some infamous pirates who operated in the Pacific between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
They peopled the Pacific
This is the story of how, despite hurricanes, volcanoes, and war, settlement of the South pacific "began thousands of years ago, when different groups from Asia started to spread out slowly among the Pacific Islands. Today this enormous 'melting pot' can be divided into five broad areas-Indonesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia and Tasmania, and Polynesia."
Jack London in the South Seas
A biography of the well-known author that concentrates on his 1907-1909 South Sea voyage.
James A. Michener
A study of the life and writings of Michener including analyses of all his books and many of his shorter pieces.