Word: breadfruit
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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...