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WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE BY: FAUSTIN WIRKUS

WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE BY: FAUSTIN WIRKUS

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FEATURES: THE WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE BY: FAUSTIN WIRKUS AND TANEY DUDLEY
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A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND 
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD 
C) FIRST EDITION THUS - GARDEN CITY 1931
D) NOTE: RARE IN DUST JACKET. ILLUSTRATED WITH BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. 333 PAGES.
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THE WHITE KING OF LA GONAVE BY: FAUSTIN WIRKUS AND TANEY DUDLEY

The true story of the Sergeant of Marines who was crowned King on a Voodoo Island.
This is a true story. A real US Marines officer landed at La Gonave, an island off the coast of Haiti. He saved their queen and they made him their king. He ruled as king for four years. However, President of Haiti found out about this and forced him out. The Marines reassigned him so he had to leave. The people still remembered him and were talking about him years later. They were longing for their king to come back and rule them again.
Faustin Edmond Wirkus (16 November 1896 – 8 October 1945)[2] was an American marine stationed in Haiti during the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934).[3][4] He was reputedly crowned Faustin II, King of La Gonâve, a Haitian island west of Hispaniola, by Queen Ti Memenne of La Gonâve on 18 July 1926, and co-ruled until he was transferred by the United States Marine Corps to the United States mainland in 1929.
According to an official biography,[5] Wirkus was born in 1896 in Rypin (Congress Poland, in the Russian Empire) a small town now in Poland, however, numerous ship passenger lists (records of the U.S. Customs Service) show his correct birth place as Pittston, Pennsylvania.[6] He and his parents settled in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community northwest of Wilkes-Barre, where he was raised.[5] At the age of 11, he started sorting coal in Pittston.
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