{"product_id":"9781560852421","title":"Island Adventures: The Hawaiian Mission of Francis A. Hammond, 1851-1865","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis (“Frank”) Hammond was not an average Mormon pioneer. After breaking his back working on a whaling ship off the coast of Siberia in 1844, he was set ashore on the island of Maui to heal. While there he set up shop as a shoemaker and learned the local language. Three years later, he converted to Mormonism in San Franciso, and in 1851 he was sent back to Hawaii as a missionary along with his new wife, Mary Jane. In the 1860s he returned to the islands as mission president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough all this, he and his wife kept extensive and fascinating journals, documenting their adventures on land and sea, as well as relations (some prickly) with fellow missionaries and non-Mormon caucasians and Hawaiians. Hammond established a Mormon gathering place on the island of Lana’i, and in the 1860s he traveled by stagecoach from Utah to the west coast with a satchel of $5,000 in gold coins to purchase the land that became the site in O’ahu of the LDS temple, church college, and Polynesian Culture Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063941742832,"sku":"9781560852421","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781560852421_p0.jpg?v=1763767346","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781560852421","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}