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In search of paradise : artists and writers in the colonial South Pacific / Graeme Lay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. : Godwit, 2008Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869621530
  • 9781869621537
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 995 22
Contents:
The chroniclers. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville : A new Cythera. Joseph Banks, James Cook and the lost continent. William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, James Morrison : The literature of a mutiny. William Mariner : Captured by the friendly islanders. Peter Dillon and the sandalwood rush. Charles Darwin and the odyssey of the Beagle -- The artists. Sydney Parkinson : Botanical artist. William Hodges and the art of exploration. Augustus Earle : Peripatetic painter. Charles Heaphy : Surveying a colony. Gottfried Lindauer : Portrayer of the Maori. Paul Gauguin and the art of escape -- The writers. Herman Melville's Cannibal Valley : Taken by the typee. Samuel Butler : High-country writer. Pierre Loti and the decline of a dynasty. Robert Louis Stevenson : A Samoan sanctuary. Jack London : In the wake of Herman Melville. Rupert Brooke : Love in passing. Somerset Maugham's trembling leaves. Robert Dean Frisbie : The lone trader. James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff : Literary partners. James Michener : War in the South Pacific.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 249) and index.

The chroniclers. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville : A new Cythera. Joseph Banks, James Cook and the lost continent. William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, James Morrison : The literature of a mutiny. William Mariner : Captured by the friendly islanders. Peter Dillon and the sandalwood rush. Charles Darwin and the odyssey of the Beagle -- The artists. Sydney Parkinson : Botanical artist. William Hodges and the art of exploration. Augustus Earle : Peripatetic painter. Charles Heaphy : Surveying a colony. Gottfried Lindauer : Portrayer of the Maori. Paul Gauguin and the art of escape -- The writers. Herman Melville's Cannibal Valley : Taken by the typee. Samuel Butler : High-country writer. Pierre Loti and the decline of a dynasty. Robert Louis Stevenson : A Samoan sanctuary. Jack London : In the wake of Herman Melville. Rupert Brooke : Love in passing. Somerset Maugham's trembling leaves. Robert Dean Frisbie : The lone trader. James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff : Literary partners. James Michener : War in the South Pacific.

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