A study of the popularization of "Paradise" - the South Pacific - in the words and experience of visiting writers, explorers, artists and scientists. The book includes narrative, quotations, paintings and contemporary and historical photographs.
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A study of the popularization of "Paradise" - the South Pacific - in the words and experience of visiting writers, explorers, artists and scientists. The book includes narrative, quotations, paintings and contemporary and historical photographs.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to. 160pp, index, bibliography, num bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. The ongoing story of the Western world's love affair with the South Seas. Writers Robert Louis Stevenson and James Michener, painters Gauguin and Matisse, scientists Thor Heyerdahl and Charles Darwin, and stars Marlon Brandon and Elvis Presley are just a few of the fascinating personalities who have fallen under the spell of the islands and whose perceptions have been altered as a result. Even today many Westerners cannot resist the temptation to either buy their own slice of paradise, or play Crusoe on a faraway uninhabited isle.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 160 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. This Is The Ongong Story Iof The Western World's Love Affair With The South Seas. Oceania Still Represents Heaven On Earth To Twentieth Century Adventurers And Dreamers.
