An American Artist In The South Sea

The American artists John La Farge preceded Gauguin to the Pacific, and
in their time his reputation as the modern Pacific painter far
overshadowed that of the Frenchman. This remarkable work is the record
of a year-long artistic odyssey through the South Seas, during which La
Farge braved the volcanoes of Hawaii, visited Robert Louis Stevenson in
Samoa, was adopted by a noble Tahitian family and journeyed through the
wild hills of Fiji, painting and sketching lyrical studies of island
life. Lavishly illustrated with his work, this account of the Polynesian
adventures that La Farge shared with his friend the historian Henry
Adams is an important contribution to the literary and artistic heritage
of the Pacific and a revealing insight into the life of a complex and
fascinating man.