Around the World With a King Author:William N. Armstrong, Glen Grant An account of King Kalakaua's famous world tour, which made him the first monarch to circumnavigate the globe. Kalakaua's quest in circling the globe was to reach out to the rest of the world to bring his island nation immigrants from other countries to repopulate his land and revigorate the lives of his declining people. Kalakaua embraced a ... more »culturally pluralistic world where races, cultures and various religions could live together in harmony but with independence.« less