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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Contemplations visual, intellectual and spiritual. In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin fled to the island of Tahiti - "a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expactancy;" begun as an unofficial visit regarding the imminent death of the island's king Pomare -- and resulting in a profoundly moving sea-change (spirit, observation, happiness). The Tahitian theology, natural history, and especially the progress of his relationships - a gift.
This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition)
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Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb.
Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb.
Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb.
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The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George)
Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb.
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber
This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition)
Other recommended travel/discovery books:
Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb.
Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb.
Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb.
Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner.
The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George)
Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb.
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
After getting a copy of this book from my local library. I ordered the paperback edition as I wanted a copy as a permanent edition to my library. Buyer beware! The paperback edition does not have the colour plates of the hardback edition, in fact it bares no resemblance.I retained the copy as the cost of returning was just not worth the expense as the paperback was so cheap, cheap being the operative word.
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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Noa Noa
18 July 1996
Format:Paperback
Contemplations visual, intellectual and spiritual. In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin fled to the island of Tahiti - "a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expactancy;" begun as an unofficial visit regarding the imminent death of the island's king Pomare -- and resulting in a profoundly moving sea-change (spirit, observation, happiness). The Tahitian theology, natural history, and especially the progress of his relationships - a gift.
This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition)
Other recommended travel/discovery books:
Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb.
Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb.
Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb.
Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner.
The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George)
Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb.
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber
This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition)
Other recommended travel/discovery books:
Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb.
Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb.
Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb.
Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner.
The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George)
Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb.
The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
It's actually an experimental novel
15 Sep 2002
Format:Paperback
Typically considered a journal or memoir, Gauguin's book is in fact an early type of experimental multimedia novel. Thematically, Gauguin burlesques Pierre Loti's "Marriage of Loti", while structurally he interleaves narrative with his own highly-inventive Post-impressionist woodcarvings. It's a fine book: Gauguin could have been a great novelist, if he weren't already busy.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A Unique Opportunity
26 Jan 2002
Format:Paperback
Though you may quarrel with Guaguin tactics or motivations, his art stands alone--brilliant, moving, subtle. It is always intriquing to hear the voice of a master painter and "Noa, Noa," affords that opportunity.
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