| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787–1898. By Jean Barman and Bruce McIntyre Watson. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. xiv + 512 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, indices. $45.00.)

Leaving Paradise chronicles the experiences of the indigenous Hawaiians who traveled to the Northwest Coast in search of work and sometimes adventure from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries. Particularly valued for their superior swimming and boating skills, a large number of these sojourners worked as seamen or within the fur trade under the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Despite significant hardships, Euro-Americans quickly deemed Hawaiians reliable, hardworking laborers and demand for their services in this region rapidly increased.

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