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...Gauguin scraped together enough money to take him to Tahiti. Before he left he wrote a loving letter to Mette, said they would be married again when he came back. His Parisian mistress, who was about to have a baby, was sorry to see him go. In Tahiti Gauguin found himself. He lived like a native, worked like a man whose days were numbered. In a letter to Mette he said: "You are right; I am an artist. There is nothing stupid about you I am a great artist and I know it." He returned to France after two years...
Seeking passage home to Tahiti after obtaining medical treatment for his ten-year-old son Conrad, Author James Norman Hall (Mutiny on the Bounty) was stranded in San Francisco by the shipping strike. Gloomed he: "This civilization can't last because it just doesn't make sense...
...Nordhoff should return to Boston. He had been a quiet Harvard man who played a guitar and mandolin and read a good deal. James Norman Hall, the lowan, came to Boston with him. Both hated business and post war America, and liked writing and fishing. They therefore settled in Tahiti in 1920, wrote the history of the Lafayette Flying Corps and a novel, Falooms of France...
...true story of the mutiny on H. M. S. Bounty in 1780. This resulted in the amazing trilogy, Mutiny on the Bountry. Mon Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. For movie rights to Mutiny and Pitcairn's Island they received a total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made so much money for Hollywood that they had to keep from being exploited...
...Gauguin, tiring of his life in France, went to Tahiti to live and there he did his greatest works. There he achieved in his art an unsurpassed decorative quality combined with a wonderful gift for design and color...