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"For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore."
-- Mark Twain, 1889
"The loveliest fleet of islands"
-- Mark Twain
Thirty-year-old Samuel Clemens, who had recently adopted the pen name Mark Twain, arrived in Hawaii in 1866 to write a series of travel letters for a Sacramento newspaper. He explored Oahu, traveled to Maui and climbed Haleakala, and visited the Big Island of Hawaii and the fiery crater of Kilauea.
Twain stayed four months and fell in love with Hawaii. Years later he famously described it as "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean." |