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maria_rb 's review for:
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
I didn’t dislike this book but it is a tad heavy on: this happened in Massachusetts and then this happened on the ocean, and then this other thing happened in Hawaii, and now the missionaries are taking over and colonialism is occurring and Hawaii is going to never recover from this onslaught of self righteousness.
There are a few interesting facts about life in the 1800s (the fact that the ONLY oil they had at the time came from whales) and early 1900s and some things I found appalling (the death of thousands of pounds of coral used to build a church, for example), but not enough to actually CARE a whole lot, overall, and I’m someone who studies effects of colonialism and gets worked up about that!
The missionaries come, they covert, they suppress, and Hawaii changes.
There are a few interesting facts about life in the 1800s (the fact that the ONLY oil they had at the time came from whales) and early 1900s and some things I found appalling (the death of thousands of pounds of coral used to build a church, for example), but not enough to actually CARE a whole lot, overall, and I’m someone who studies effects of colonialism and gets worked up about that!
The missionaries come, they covert, they suppress, and Hawaii changes.