Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans and Pacific Worlds Edited by Ryan Tucker Jones and Angela Wanhalla (Hardback) Missionary History The Forbes Collection in the

The Forbes Collection in the Hawaii State Archives includes his transcriptions and notes regarding significant documents of the Hawaiian kingdom’s last royal family

Temperance societies were popular throughout New England and brought to Hawai’i by the missionaries

funded by the estate of Princess Pauahi Bishop

In the process they reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling

including Bernice Pauahi Bishop and Ruth Ke‘elikōlani

Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans and Pacific Worlds Edited by Ryan Tucker Jones and Angela Wanhalla (Hardback) Missionary History The Forbes Collection in theMore than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro American whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth century, and to the new forms of human cetacean partnerships that have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship between these two species has been central to the oceans history.