Rascals in Paradise is a 1957

1957 in literature

The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960....

 collection of ten historical non-fiction short stories

Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

 co-written by James A. Michener

James A. Michener

James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which were sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating historical facts into the stories...

 (1907-1997) and University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...

 professor Arthur Grove Day (1904-1994).

Contents

1. Rascals in Paradise: The Globe

Globe (whaleship)

-External links:*...

 Mutineers

2. Charles I

Marquis de Rays

Charles Marie Bonaventure du Breil, Marquis de Rays was a French nobleman who had ambitions of starting a great French colony in the South Pacific...

, Emperor of Oceania

3. Coxinga, Lord of the Seas

4. Gibson

Walter M. Gibson

Walter Murray Gibson was an American adventurer and a government minister in the Kingdom of Hawaii prior to the kingdom's 1887 constitution.-Life:...

, the King's Evil Angel

5. Bligh

William Bligh

Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMAV Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift in the Bounty's launch by the mutineers...

, Man of Mutinies

6. Doña Isabel, the Lady Explorer

7. Bully Hayes

Bully Hayes

William Henry "Bully" Hayes has been described as a South Sea pirate and "the last of the Buccaneers", who together with Ben Pease, engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific in the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877 by his cook Peter...

, South Sea Buccaneer

8. Louis Becke, Adventurer and Writer

9. Will Mariner

William Mariner (writer)

William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in the Tonga Islands from 29 November 1806 to 8 November 1810. He wrote an account of his experiences, Tonga Islands, that is now one of the major sources of information on pre-Christian Tonga.-Mariner's sojourn in Tonga:William Mariner was a teenage...

, the boy Chief of Tonga

10.Leeteg

Edgar Leeteg

Edgar Leeteg was an American painter often considered the father of American velvet painting. Before Leeteg, black velvet painting was primarily considered a hobby, not an art.-Early career:...

, the Legend