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The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic

The Glamour of StrangenessBy Jamie James ’73. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 2016. Available on Amazon. James focuses on six artists, including Paul Gauguin and Isabelle Eberhardt, who left their homes for the unknown.

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