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Mark Twain's The Hawaiian Island
In the words of Mark Twain, “….No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides, other things change, but it remains the same” and “the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored to any ocean.” What islands could inspire such eloquence and longing? The Hawaiian Islands, a chain of eight large islands located in the South Pacific

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