Morning Stars and Missionary Packet 1945 Albert S Baker ~ History of Ships/Voyages from Boston to Hawaii & Pacific Islands ~ Missionaries

Title: Morning Stars and Missionary Packet

Author: Albert S. Baker / Foreword by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Description: Second printing, July 1945. Blue card wraps. Some toning to covers. A couple short closed tears to top edge of covers. Previous owner's bookplate and name at front. 38 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Placed in an archival mylar wrapper.

A history of the ''Morning Star'' missionary ships, which voyaged from Boston to Hawaii and the Pacific islands of Polynesia and Micronesia. The first four sailed in 1856, 1866, 1871 and 1884, and the fifth, a steamer, launched in 1904. There is also a chapter on the ''Missionary Packet,'' a schooner which sailed from Boston to Honolulu in 1826. Each chapter describes the origin, mission, fund raising, construction, captains and voyages of each of the six ships, and provides an illustration of the ship being discussed.

The previous owner acquired the book in Honolulu in August 1945, while serving in the Pacific Theater as a Captain in the U.S. Army.

Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good–

Publisher: Printed by The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd.
Place: Honolulu, Hawaii
Year: 1945

Keywords: Hawaii, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Island, Christian, missionaries, nautical,