In Search of Paradise - Artists and writers in the colonial South Pacific
Author(s): Graeme Lay
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. Among the art and writings included are: The candid chronicles of Joseph Banks Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's discovery of Tahitian free love Herman Melville's very first fiction Robert Louis Stevenson's life and death in Samoa The radiant paintings of Paul Gauguin Gottfried Lindauer's depiction of a presumed-dying Maori race The love affair of Rupert Brooke's life The inspiration for Somerset Maugham's best-known short story, and The remarkable literary partnership of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.
Product Information
Auckland-based writer Graeme Lay has written or edited thirty-eight works of fiction and non-fiction, including novels for adults and young adults, collections of short stories and books of travel writing. Many of his books, both fiction and non-fiction, are set in the islands of the South Pacific, a region through which he has travelled extensively.
General Fields
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- : Random House New Zealand Ltd
- : Godwit
- : 2.15
- : January 2008
- : 270mm X 290mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Graeme Lay
- : hardback with dustjacket
- : 709.22
- : very good
- : 272
- : Art styles not limited by date; Art treatments & subjects; Novels, other prose & writers; Social & cultural history
- : Full-Colour illustrations