Title: In search of paradise : artists and writers in the colonial South Pacific /
Authors: Lay, Graeme, 1944-
Publisher: Godwit,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Artists Oceania.; Authors Oceania.; Europeans Oceania.; Authors.; Oceania History
Abstract: In this lavishly illustrated book, author Graeme Lay presents the lives of twenty-three of the finest artists and writers to have been inspired by the South Pacific, and a rich selection of their works. In Search of Paradise is a compilation of memorable visual and literary journeys, covering two hundred years of European contact with the South Pacific islands and the people who inhabited them at a unique period in the region's history.
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.