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There were several errors in an article on Susanna Moore’s new book, “Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), on page F1 on Sunday. First, Kaahumanu’s father was Keeaumoku, a Kona chief and ally of Kamehameha the Great. (Her mother, Nama- hana, was the widow of the king of Maui before her marriage to Keeaumoku.) The article stated Kaahumanu’s father was the king of Maui.

Also, Moore’s father, Richard D. Moore, was a radiologist in Honolulu. The article indicated he was a military doctor.

The excerpt from “Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii” on F7 on Sunday inadvertently omitted Moore’s attribution for a passage taken from “The Gifts of Civilization: Germs and Genocide in Hawai‘i” by O.A. Bushnell. The passage comprises the entire second paragraph of the excerpt.