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Chasing Sandalwood: The First Pacific Gold Rush
Traders, Chiefs and Beachcombers in the Race for Fragrant Wood

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Chasing Sandalwood: The First Pacific Gold Rush Before the California gold rush or the Klondike stampede, a different frenzy swept the Pacific—one driven not by glittering metal but by the intoxicating scent of sandalwood. *Chasing Sandalwood* reveals how Canton’s thirst for fragrant wood turned remote Fiji, Hawaii, and the Marquesas into battlegrounds of trade, guns, and ecological ruin, forever reshaping islands and empires.

Through vivid first‑hand accounts—sea captains’ logs, island oral histories, and mercantile ledgers—this narrative follows the rise and fall of the first Pacific gold rush, showing how a single botanical commodity sparked deadly warfare, forced labor, cultural upheaval, and the first wave of missionaries into a transformed world.

For readers who love maritime adventure, environmental history, and the hidden stories behind globalization, *Chasing Sandalwood* offers a gripping, cautionary tale of greed, ambition, and the irreversible price of a scent that once united East and West. Dive in and discover the forgotten rush that laid the foundations of the modern Pacific.

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Scent of Fortune
  • Chapter 1: Canton's Craving: The Chinese Market for Fragrant Wood
  • Chapter 2: Charting the Unknown: Early European Traders in the South Seas
  • Chapter 3: The Discovery of Vanua Levu: Fiji’s Hidden Groves
  • Chapter 4: Guns for Wood: The Fatal Trade in Bua Bay
  • Chapter 5: The Rise of Na Ulivou: Bauan Hegemony and Foreign Muskets
  • Chapter 6: Beachcombers and Renegades: Castaways in the Fijian Frontier
  • Chapter 7: Blood on the Reefs: The Ambush of the Elie Bikar
  • Chapter 8: Stripping the Islands: The First Ecological Collapse in Fiji
  • Chapter 9: Kamehameha’s Monopoly: The Sandalwood Rush Comes to Hawaii
  • Chapter 10: The Iliahi Standard: How Sandalwood Built a Hawaiian Empire
  • Chapter 11: The Chiefs' Extravagance: Luxury, Debt, and the Foreign Merchants
  • Chapter 12: Backbreaking Burden: The Human Cost on the Hawaiian Commoner
  • Chapter 13: High Seas and Harsh Winters: The Dangerous Passage to Whampoa
  • Chapter 14: The Marquesan Mirage: Searching for Fragrant Trees in Nuku Hiva
  • Chapter 15: Tribal Alliances and Betrayals in the Marquesas
  • Chapter 16: The Tonquin and the Traders: Desperation in the South Pacific
  • Chapter 17: The Price of Iron: Transforming Island Economies and Warfare
  • Chapter 18: The Depletion of Oahu: Searching for the Last Stands
  • Chapter 19: Disaster at Sea: The Fated Expedition of the Cleopatra's Barge
  • Chapter 20: The Phantom Forests: Delusions and Speculation in Sydney and Boston
  • Chapter 21: Disease and Disruption: The Pathogens Behind the Trade
  • Chapter 22: The Burning of the Stumps: The End of the Hawaiian Boom
  • Chapter 23: Ruins of the Rush: Cultural Upheaval Before the Cross
  • Chapter 24: The Dawn of the Missionaries: Arriving in a Altered World
  • Chapter 25: Echoes of the Engine: The Legacy of the First Pacific Gold Rush
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Brenda P. Boyd

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