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The Huck Finn of foreign correspondents provides a colorful account of old Honolulu, the island nobility, the City of Refuge on the Kona coast, and the active volcano of Kilauea. These selections of Mark Twain's newspaper dispatches are both charming and informative. The light touch of the great humorist is seldom missing as he reveals the loveliest fleet of islands that lie anchored in any ocean. This recording evokes the historical era with ...

Mark Twain arrived in Honolulu on Sunday, March 18, 1866, to write a series of travel letters to be published in the Sacramento Union. His letters about "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean" show Twain's keen ability to detail and portray what life was really like in Hawaii in the nineteenth century. McAvoy Layne's dramatic reading beautifully conveys the strength and spirit of both Twain and early Hawaii, an unspoil...