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First launched in January 1911, this third volume is complete with 6 monthly issues dated January to June 1912. Each in original color illustrated wraps bound inside the publisher's ornately gilt-illustrated green cloth 18x26cm. Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette. (2)pp Contents of Volume III; pp1-596; pp101-138 "Encyclopedia and Guide to Hawaii and the Pacific", (2)pp Index. With b/w photos and maps throughout. Provenance: ex-Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station Library copy (with Ralph Hosmer's related article in Issue 1), with minimal markings including spine label and ink stamp to front pastedown dated 9/13/44. Covers otherwise very good, rubbed to the extremities with gilt bright. Interiors about good overall, damp stained throughout, extensively towards the front, and lessening to the lower corner by the end, with some colour offsetting from the still attractive covers to facing pages. Alexander Hume Ford launched this as the official organ of the "Hands-Around-the-Pacific Club" (renamed Pan-Pacific Union in 1912) which he co-founded with Jack London to promote regional interests. They hosted gatherings for leading figures at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Hawaii, which Ford had founded in 1908 to revive and preserve surfing on boards and in outrigger canoes. Ford wrote more than at first appears, confessing to London that he used assumed names whilst begging, stealing or borrowing the rest. He encouraged his local business backers to submit factual content for the Encyclopedia and Guide instead of offering them display ads. The content is very rich on Hawaiian and wider Pacific culture, history, and geography, with additional regular features on Pacific personalities (profiling Club members and others), poetry and literature. ISSUE 1 contains Ford's progress report, and articles on Hawaiian industry, Hawaiian legends, Chinese New Year in the Tropics, Tasmania, American carnivals in the Pacific, Japan's move for Pacific peace, Honolulu as an Agricultural Scientific Center by Ralph Hosmer, Canadian Rockies, home life in the South Seas. ISSUE 2 contain's Ford's write up of the Hands Around the Pacific Banquet, and articles on sugar in Hawaii, New Zealand's Alps, flying in the Tropics by French aviator Didier Masson, Kosciusko, Hawaiian mountains, Tahiti, Iao Valley, Dutch Indies, South Seas Hulahula, the Sierra Club by Marion Parsons, Mid-Pacific Floral Parade. ISSUE 3 has Ford's editorial on Pan-Pacific promotion work, and articles on the passing of Hawaii's grass houses, Sourabaya, windward Hawaii by Sol Sheridan, Buffalo Plateau, Jack London's Cruise of the Snark, New Zealand's Geyserland, Saigon and French China by Oscar Vojnich, the Taro plant, Philippines' picturesque non-Christians, Honolulu's Japanese Park. ISSUE 4: Hawaiian cherry festival, Margaret Howard's ascent of Mauna Loa, indsutrial New Zealand, tramping on Molokai, Australia's irrigation problem, rice in Hawaii, big game in Manchuria, church life in the South Seas, the legendary origin of Kapa cloth, to Mexico City by sea and rail. ISSUE 5 ("Hands Around the Pacific Number") opens with Hands Around the Pacific Club President WF Frear's Announcement on resolutions adopted at its Pacific Day Banquet in Honolulu by 360 Club members with a list of representatives. Articles cover the Hands Around the Pacific Movement, Waipio Valley, deer stalking and fishing in New Zealand, building an outrigger canoe, Australian aboriginals, the Hawaiian pineapple, Vojnich on Hong Kong, American commerce, the story of Hawaii. ISSUE 6: Pacific volcanoes, Puna, Baguio near Manila, Vojnich on New Zealand's lakes, Japan in Hawaii, Australian farmers, banana culture in Hawaii, trolley cars in the Pacific.
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