Shark dialogues
By: Kiana Davenport
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780452274587
Subjects: Women; Fiction
Description: The saga of a Hawaiian family, beginning in 1834 with the meeting of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor and a runaway Tahitian princess. It traces the family's fortunes all the way to the present, incorporating a great deal of history: whaling, labor unions, earthquakes and the Vietnam War. The author is of mixed Hawaiian and Anglo-American descent.