{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-vela-albert-wendt-9780824834203","title":"The Adventures of Vela","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We are the remembered cord that stretches across the abyss of all that we've forgotten,\" sang Vela. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJourney through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela, the Samoan song maker, poet, and storyteller--Vela, who was so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa. Follow Vela down through centuries as he encounters the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact and recounts the stories of Lady Nafanua, the fearless warrior queen, before whom travelling chroniclers still bow down today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Pacific epic, this novel stretches hundreds of years before the arrival of Papalagi to the present day and fuses the great indigenous oral traditions of storytelling and Western poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Wendt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824834208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824834203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 6.44w x 0.69d","brand":"Albert Wendt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465473249535,"sku":"9780824834203","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8223c7f5-cfe6-4b42-8a95-d9320f91a0ed.jpg?v=1736346348","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-adventures-of-vela-albert-wendt-9780824834203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}