An Island God ~ Paperback ~ Gurdon S Mumford

Excerpt from An Island God: A Tale of the First Kamehameha For two hours the fierce southern sun had been climbing above the misty horizon, and now beat down with all its tropical power upon the waving palms and flashing reef and long white beach of a Pacific island. Upon the greater part of this fair country, from the green, sharply outlined mountains in the north, down through precipitous valleys and over smiling, tree-grown levels to the sea, there was no sign of husbandry or of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.