First- the story of the millions of years before man, as the volcanic islands rose from the sea, fell again, were rebuilt by the coral, by beds of lava, and slowly populated by vegetation, and life, and a passionate, courageous, adventurous people from the lovely Bora Bora. While each of the major sections seems at first almost complete in itself, tracing the elements that together brought the islands to fulfillment, actually the people who wove the texture became themselves a major part of it. For here is the story of Hawaii, told in terms of the peoples who made it- and the forces of nature which held it in thrall. This is Michener's most ambitious book, but at times it almost falls of its own weight in the immense scope of time and place and people projected.
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