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  <title><![CDATA[Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin]]></title>
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  <default_description>In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacket is still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends, affectionate tales of Gauguin's encounters with the captivating Tahitian people, and fascinating glimpses of the inspiration behind his most famous paintings, &lt;i&gt;Noa Noa&lt;/i&gt; assumes its rightful place among the masterworks of an extraordinary artist.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Paul Gauguin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paul Gauguin's journal of his time in Tahiti, living with a native girl in an attempt to better understand the native Tahitian culture, and make himself a more free and natural artist by getting himself outside of the stifling Euorpean society he comes from. The journal provides a glimpse of Tahiti ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75678005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is not an easy read but it is an interesting book about Gauguin,his time in Tahiti, and the European perception of all things &quot;savage.&quot;  I would recommend people to read &quot;The Yellow House&quot; before reading this book.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people that want to justify Gauguin leaving his family for Thaiti]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i forgot about this book until i saw it in a bookstore today. I remember being in jr. high or high school and being so enamored with Gauguin and then finding out he had left his wife and 5 children to go live in Tahiti and i was so disappointed in him (i'm easily crushed- as i'm sure you can imagine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7689358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far one of my favorite books. I read it first when I was in high school...it made me all that much more intrigued to enter into the artistic world.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[just bought it after seeing a rare edition at work. i always hated gaugain, now i'm curious.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know why I read this-- there was just something about it.  It was interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Naive and personal in the hand of Gauguin.  A lovely journal.]]></body>
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