Paul Gauguin Cruise} June 4, 2022 - June 15, 2022

Dr. Charlie Urbanowicz / Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

California State University Chico / Chico, California 95929-0400

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This is the expanded version of the one-page handout distributed on the June 2022 cruise. [NOTE: Authors who have their name in bold, such as Klaus Berger, indicates that this was one of the references on the one-page handout distributed on the Paul Gauguin cruise.]

Printed from: curbanowicz.yourweb.csuchico.edu/PaulGauguinJune2022.html

Kathleen Adler & Tamar Garb [Editors], 1986, The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot with her family and her friends, MANET, PUVIS de CHAVANNES, DEGAS, MONET, RENOIR AND MALLARME (London: Camden Press).

Robert Aldrich, 1990, The French Presence in the South Pacific 1842-1890 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

Caroline Alexander, 2003, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny of the Mutiny on the Bounty (NY: Viking).

Graham Allison, 2017, Destined For War: Can America And China Escape Thucydides's Trap? (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Mark Anderson, 2012, The Day The World Discovered The Sun (Da Capo).

Jules Archer, 1973, The Plot to Seize the White House (NY: Hawthorn Books. NOTE: in 2007 a paperback version was published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc., New York City).

Samuel Bawlf, 2003, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1577-1589 (Penguin).

Richard Bretell et al., 1988, The Art of Paul Gauguin (Washington: The national Gallery of Art).

David Dean Barrett, 2020, 140 Days To Hiroshima:  The Story of Japan's Last Chance To Avert Armageddon (New York: Diversion Books).

John Baxter, 2014, Disney During World War II: How The Walt Disney Studio Contributed Ro Victory In The War (New York: Disney Editions).

Klaus Berger, 1992, Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse [Translated by David Britt and first published in 1980 as Japonismus in der westlichen Maleri 1860-1920], Cambridge University Press.

Laurence Bergreen, 2003, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (NY: W. Morrow).

Walter R. Borneman, 2012, The Admirals:  Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea (NY:  Little, Brown and Company).

Stephen H. Brown, 2003, Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (NY: St. Martin's Press). [Self-evident from title.] [This item, combined with Sobel 1995, provides excellent background for the problems of the navigators of the times.]

François Caçhin et al., 1983, Manet: 1832-1883 (NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

François Caçhin, 1992, Gauguin: The Quest For Paradise [originally published in 1989, translated from the French by I. Mark Paris] (NY: Harry N. Abrams).

Thomas N. Carmichael, 1971, The Ninety Days: Five battles That Changed The World October 1942 - January 1943 [Guadalcanal, El Alamein, Operation Torch, Stalingrad, The Barents Sea] (Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky).

Iris Chang, 1997, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II (Penguin Books). [Self-evident from title.] 

John Clancy, 2015, The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 (Oxford & Philadelphia: Casement uk).

Gordon Corrigan, 2006, Blood, Sweat and Arrogance and the myths of Churchill's War (Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

Pierre Courthion, 1977, Impressionism [trans. by John Shepley] (NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.).

John Crawford [Editor], 2000, Kia Kaha: New Zealand in the Second World War (Oxford University Press).

Bengt Danielsson, 1966, Gauguin In The South Seas (NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.).

Bengt Danielsson and Marie-Thérèse Danielsson, 1977, Moruroa Mon Amour: The French Nuclear Tests in the Pacific [originally published in 1974] (Penguin).

Nienke Denenkamp, 2019, The Gauguin Atlas [translated by Laura Watkinson and first published in 2018 as de grote Gauguin atlas], Yale University Press).

Bernard Denvir [Editor], 1987, The Impressionists At First Hand (New York: Thames and Hudson.Ltd/London).

Bernard Denvir, 1992, Gauguin: Letters From Brittany And The South Seas (NY: Clarkson Potter/Publishers).

Anne Distil et al., 1995, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist (The Art Institute of Chicago).

Joan Druett, 2011, Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator (New Zealand: Random House).

Hoito Edoin, 1987, The Night Tokyo Burned: The Incendiary Campaign Against Japan, March-August 1945 (NY: St. Martin's Press).

Jack Flam, 1995, Matisse On Art (University of California Press).

Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, 1955, Midway: The Japanese Navy's Story of the Battle That Doomed Japan (Ballantine Books).

Paul Fussell, 1988, Thank God For The Atomic Bomb And Other Essays (Simon & Schuster).

Paul Gauguin, 1897 [1901], Noa Noa (Translated from the French by P.F. Theis) (NY: The Noonday Press, 1951). [Gauguin's published journal of his initial stay in Tahiti, 1891-1893.]

Pola Gauguin, 1937, My Father Paul Gauguin (NY: 1988 Hacker Books edition).

Margaret Geddes, 2004, Blood, Sweat and Tears: Australia's WWII remembered by the men and women who lived it (Penguin).

Stuart D. Goldman, 2012, Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press).

Suzanne Greub [Editor], 2011, Gauguin Polynesia (Wemding, Germany: Firmengruppe Appl, aprinta druck GmbH).

Philip Henshall, 2000, The Nuclear Axis: Germany, Japan And The Atomic Bomb Race 1939-45 (United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Limited - Phoenix Hill).

Charles Higham, 1983, Trading With The Enemy: An Exposé of The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949 (NY: Delacorte Press).

Anne Higonnet, 1990, Berthe Morisot (Harper & Row).

James D. Hornfischer, 2011, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy At Guadalcanal (NY: Bantam Books).

Tony Horowitz, 2002, Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (NY: Henry Holt and Company). [Self-evident from title.]

K.R. Howe, 2003, The Quest For Origins.

K.R. Howe [Editor], 2006, Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors (U of Hawai'i Press).

Edwin P. Hoyt, 1982, Guadalcanal: The Desperate Struggle That Turned The Tide of the War.

William Bradford Huie, 1944, Can Do! The Story of the Seabees (NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.)

Saburo Ienaga, 1978 [originally published in Japanese in 1968 as IWANAMI SHOTEN], The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II (NY: Random House).

Leo Janse, 2009 [Editor], Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters - The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition (London: Thames & Hudson, in association with the Van Gogh Museum and the Huygens Institute), Six Volumes. FASCINATING NOTE: These six volumes are all available on the web at: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/.

Martha Kapos [Editor], 1995, The Impressionists And Their Legacy (New York: Barnes & Noble Books).

Louis Kaufman, Barbara Fitzgerald, and Tom Swell, xxxx, Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar…Spy.

Ann Kay, 2020, Berthe Morisot: Masterpieces Of Art (Flame Tree Publishing, Fulham, London, United Kingdom).

Horst Keller, 1982, The Great Book of French Impressionism [translated by Alexis Brown from the 1975 Die Kunst französischen Impressionisten] (NY: Greenwich House).

Richard Kendall, 1996, Degas: Beyond Impressionism (London: National Gallery Publications).

Paul Kennedy, 2013, Engineers Of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide In The Second World War (New York: Random House).

Patrick Vinton Kirch, 2000, On The Road Of The Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact (University of California Press).

Kenneth K. Koskodan, 2009, No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Polish Forces in World War II.

Ulf Küster, 2014, Gustave Courbet (Ostildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag).

Nathaniel Lande, 2017, Spinning History: Politics and Propaganda in World War II (New York City: Skyhorse Publishing).

Thomas J. Larson & Alex W. du Peel, 2004, Bora Bora History and G.I.'s in Paradise: The Bobcat Project World war II story of the G.I.'s in Bora Bora (Pape'ete: Édition Pacific Promotion Tahiti S.A.)

Erik Larson, 2020, The Splendid And The Vile:  A Saga Of Churchill, Family, And Defiance During The Blitz (New York: Crown).

Paule Laudon, 2001, Matisse In Tahiti [translated from the 1999 French edition by Michael Taylor] (Paris, France: Vilo International 2001).

Camille Laurens, 2017, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece [translated from the French by Willard Wood and originally published in French as La petite danseuse de quartorzeans], New York: Other Press).

Ted Lawson, 1943, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Heather Lemonedes, Belinda Thomson, and Agnieszka Juszczak, 2009, Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 (Ostildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag).

Curtis E. LeMay and Bill Yenne, 1988, Superfortress: The Story of the B-29 and American Air Power (NY: Berkley Books). [Self-evident from title.] 

Paul Laudon, 2001, Matisse In Tahiti [translated from the 1999 French edition by Michael Taylor] (Paris, France: Vilo International 2001).

Camille Laurens, 2017, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece [translated from the French by Willard Wood and originally published in French as La petite danseuse de quartorzeans], New York: Other Press).

Heather Lemonedes, Belinda Thomson, and Agnieszka Juszczak, 2009, Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 (Ostildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag).

Judy Le Paul [with the collaboration of Charles-Guy Le Paul], 1987, Gauguin And The Impressionists At Pont-Aven [translated from the 1983 L'impressionnisme dans l'école de Pont-Aven] (NY: Abbeville Press publishers).

Douglas Lockwood, 1967, Australia's Pearl Harbor: Darwin 1942 (Sydney: New Holland Publishers).

Ben Macintyre, 2010, Operation Mincemeat: How A Dead Man And A Bizarre Plan Fooled The Nazis And Assured Allied Victory (NY: Broadway Books).

William Manchester, 1979, Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Boston: Little, Brown and Company).

David McCormack, 2016, Japan At War 1931-1945: As The Cherry Blossom Falls (CPI Group, UK: Fonthill).

Gavin Menzies, 2002, 1421: The Year China Discovered America (Transworld Publishers). [Self-evident from title and a fascinating and controversial book!]

James A. Michener, 1947, Tale of the South Pacific [A 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner.] 

Alan Moorehead, 1966, The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 (Penguin).

Ewen Montagu, 1953, The Man Who Never Was (Penguin).

Colin Newbury, 1980, Tahiti Nui: Change And Survival In French Polynesia 1767-1945 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press).

Richard Overy, 2021, Blood And Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 (Viking/Penguin).

Margaret F. MacDonald, 2020, The Woman in White: Joanna Hifferman and James McNeill Whistler (Yale University Press).

James A. Michener, 1947, Tales of the South Pacific (Macmillan Edition). [Self-evident from title: Pulitzer Prize winner in 1948.]

James A. Michener and A. Grove Day, 1957, Rascals in Paradise (NY: Random House).

Allan R. Millett and Julian Thompson, 2012, WWII In 100 Objects: The Story of the World's Greatest Conflict Told Through the Objects That Shaped it (NY: Metro Books).

Charles Moffett et al. [Director and Coordinator], 1986, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886 (San Francisco, CA: The Fine Arts Museums).

Peter Moore, 2018, Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World (London: Chatto & Windus).

Liza Mundy, 2017, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (New York: Hachette Books).

Norman Ohler, 2017, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich [translated by Shaun Whiteside from the 2015 German publication] (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, 2004, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko: Forgotten Heroes of World War II.

Bill O'Reilly, 2017, The Day The World Went Nuclear: Dropping The Atom Bomb And the End Of World War II In The Pacific (New York: Henry Holt and Company).

Richard Overy, 2021, Blood And Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 (Random House, LLC).

Sylvie Patin, 1993, Monet: The Ultimate Impressionist [translated from the French by Anthony Roberts] (New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd/London).

Nathaniel Philbrick, 2003, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage Of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (NY: Viking, The Penguin Group).

Francis Pike, 2015, Hirohito's War:  The Pacific War 1941-1945 (London:  Bloomsbury).   NOTE:  This 1,110 page volume does not have any maps, appendices, or a bibliography; all of these items, and more, are only available on the web at: http://www.francispike.org/

Camille Pissaro, 1972, Camille Pissaro: Letters to his son Lucien (NY: P.P. Appel, Mamaroneck, NY)

John Prados, 2012, Islands Of Destiny: The Solomon Campaign And The Eclipse Of The Rising Sun (NY: Penguin).

Gordon W. Prange [with Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon], 1982, Miracle At Midway.

Gordon W. Prange [with Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon], 1990, God's Samurai: Lead Pilot At Pearl Harbor (Washington: Brassey's (US), Inc.)

Rosalind de Boland Roberts, 1987, Growing Up With The Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet (London: Sotheby's Publications).

David Robie, 2005, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior [revised fourth edition] (Auckland: Asia Pacific Network.

Denis Rouart [Editor], 1957, Berthe Morison: The Correspondence with her family and her friends, MANET, PUVIS de CHAVANNES, DEGAS, MONET, RENOIR AND MALLARME (Mt. Kisco, New York: 1987 Moyer Bell Edition).

Jean-Louis Saquet, 2007, The Tahiti Handbook: te fenua [Translated by Nancy and Dominique Benard] (Singapore: Saik Wah Press PTE LTD).

Martha Prater and Charles F. Stuckey [Editors], 1987, Gauguin: A Retrospective (New York: Park Lane).

George T.M. Shackleford, n.d., Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Publication).

George T.M. Shackelford and Claire Frèches-Tory, 2004, Gauguin Tahiti (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Publication).

William L. Shirer, 1940, Berlin Diary.

William L. Shirer, 1960, The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

Craig Shirley, 2011, December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America And Saved the World (Nashville, TN:  Thomas Nelson). [Self-evident from title; and see Downing 2009.]

Craig Shirley, 2022, April 1945: The Hinge of History (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books).

Dana Sobel, 1995, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (NY: Penguin Books). [Self-evident from title.] [This item, combined with Brown 2003, provides excellent background for the problems of the navigators of the times.]

Hilary Spurling, 2005, Matisse The Master: A Life of Henri Matisse - The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 (NY: Alfred A. Knopf).

Michael Sturma, 2015, Freemantle's Submarines: How Allied Submariners and Western Australians Helped to Win the War in the Pacific (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press).

David Sweetman, 1995, Paul Gauguin: A Life (Simon & Schuster).

Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin, 2000, The Battle of Brisbane: Australians and the Yanks at War (Sydney: ABC Books).

Peter Thompson, 2008, Pacific Fury:  How Australia And Her Allies Defeated The Japanese (South Australia:  Griffin Press). [Self-evident from title!]

Belinda Thomson, 1987, Gauguin (New York: Thames and Hudson.Ltd/London).

Belinda Thomson [Editor], 2010, Gauguin: Maker of Myth (Tate Publishing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC).

Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi, 2013, The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press).

Paul D. Walker, 2003, Truman's Dilemma: Invasion or The Bomb (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company).

Max Wallace, 2003, The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, and the Rise of The Third Reich (NY: St. Martin's Press).

Robert K. Wilcox, 2019, Japan's Secret War: How Japan's Race to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program, Third Revised and Update Edition (New York/Nashville: Permuted Press, LLC). [Convincing argument that Japan test-fired a nuclear device on the Korean peninsula on August 10, 1945, prior to the surrender ceremony of the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.]

Andrea Wulf, 2012, Chasing Venus: The Race To Measure The Heavens.

Bill Yenne, 2016, Panic on the Pacific: How America Prepared for a West Coast Invasion (Washington, DC: Regnery History).

Eric M. Zafran [Editor], 2001, Gauguin's Nirvana: Painters At Le Pouldu 1889-90 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Arts, Hartford, CT).

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