The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle has a fantastic bookstore, full of books you didn’t know you wanted to read. I was about halfway through this book before I figured out why I wanted to read it, since I’m not a teacher. But then I realized it was about how to teach myself about Pacific histories. It is full of, “to teach them about [this interesting concept] you could talk about [two sentences abou t fascinating incident or piece of writing] [footnote to book or article about it]. Scholarly and respectful, centering the islands and the connections, in contrast to the
“Pacific Rim” narrative.