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Benjamin Moser
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Light Years

 

Light Years
A Girlhood in Hawai’i

RRP: Price: £12.99
Haus Price: £10.40
Friends of Haus: £9.75

 

Publication Date:
2007-07-19

ISBN:
9781905791156

Format:
Hardback

Territory:
UK & Commonwealth

Category:
Travel

Pages:
208

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Susanna Moore cannot remember her first encounter with the sea – it has always been part of her life. She grew up in Hawai’i in the 1950s in a paradise of colour and light, a five-day voyage away from the US mainland.

As a child she used to spend the endless days of summer with a pile of books under the palm trees near the beach. She could hear the whisper of the sea every day, and in the books of the great storytellers – such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Daniel Defoe – she found the stories that the waves and wind told her as she plunged into a world of literature.
 This book is her recollection of that childhood in Hawai’i, walking barefoot to school, experiencing the adventures and sometimes dangers of island life and encountering the culture of the native Hawaiians. It is also an anthology of some of the greatest writing about the sea that has shaped her understanding of that world.
 
Authors featured include:
 
Daniel Defoe
Herman Melville
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
Thor Heyerdahl
Virginia Woolf
D H Lawrence
Washington Irving
Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
Susanna Moore spent her childhood with her four siblings in Hawai’i. In 1983 she started writing; her novel In the Cut was a US national bestseller, and in 2003 was made into a film starring Meg Ryan. In 1999 she was presented with the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives and works in New York.