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...Stevensonians, tourists and scholars climb the hill to peer into the world of a man who has kidnapped the imagination of generations. Devoted pilgrims will hike a further hour to the author's final resting place on the peak of Mount Vaea. Here, under the breadfruit trees, they can wonder about his death at 44 from a brain hemorrhage, whose suddenness turned his life "into a fable as strange and romantic as one of his own," Henry James wrote to the distraught Fanny. "There have been ? for men of letters few deaths more romantically right...
Gauguin is more to us than a great painter. He's our ultimate escape artist, the stockbroker who hightailed it to the breadfruit and warm surf and nipples of the South Seas, where his palette and his libido flourished, the man who said no to civilization and really meant...
...powerful local variety of marijuana known as pakalolo but, after a recent crackdown by drug agents, has switched to fishing. Patrick Barnett (not his real name), on the other hand, who is originally from Honolulu, lived for years under trees and bushes in the Waipio Valley, subsisting primarily on breadfruit, mangoes and bananas. "My first 14 years on this island were spent in hiding," says Barnett, who is stooped, almost toothless and looks decades older than his 41 years...
...root. For many, the hero of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant-garde...
...English captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel Hana-Maui, an island landmark...