{"product_id":"the-adventures-of-vela","title":"The Adventures Of Vela by Albert Wendt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“We are the remembered cord that stretches across the abyss of all that we’ve forgotten,” sang Vela.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eʻO le atamai o aliʻi, le \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusuga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaualaʻivao Albert Wendt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ʻo se tusitala lāuiloa i le Pasefika ma ʻo se polofesa ʻua lītaea mai le Iunivesitē o 'Aukilani, Niu Sila.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaualaivao Albert Wendt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the Pacific’s most renowned writer. He is an emeritus professor at Auckland University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUH Press, 2009\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback, 286 pages | 17 illus., 2 maps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"UH Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33901472252036,"sku":"9780824834203","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0378\/1161\/7924\/files\/9780824834203-600x923.jpg?v=1783736188","url":"https:\/\/basically-books-co.myshopify.com\/products\/the-adventures-of-vela","provider":"Basically Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}