My new book Guys like Gauguin will be published in August 2026. Below is the index of chapters

Part One: The Enduring Image

1. The creation of the image of Tahiti: first visitors

2. Tahiti in the 19^th century

3. Repeating the image: 19^th-century writers and artists

4. Paul Gauguin      

5. Tahiti at the beginning of the 20^th century

Part Two: The 1920s Craze

6. The books that started the craze

7. The South Seas and Tahiti craze

8. The draw of Tahiti in the 1920s

Part Three: 1920s Writers and Artists

9. The boar-hunting opium-smoking artist, Octave Morillot

10. The first American artists: George Biddle and Jerome Blum

11. The first writers: James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff

12. The scandalous novelist, Robert Keable

13. The American socialite, Caroline Guild

14. The anonymous author, Asterisk

15. The runaway aristocrat, Jack Hastings

16. The Scottish pensioner, William Alister Macdonald

17. The travel writer, Elinor Mordaunt

18. The first millionaire novelist, Zane Grey

19. The matador, her husband and her lover: Ruth Wightman Morris, Gouverneur Morris and Alec Waugh

20. The later artists: Herman Gouwe, Paul Engdahl and others

21. The seeker of solitude, Robert Dean Frisbie