Preface: regarding Tahiti
Histories of an island and an idea: from Tahiti to New Cythera
Garden of Eden to dying paradise: the foundational myths of Tahiti
Polynesia in Paris: Paul Gauguin in search of the exotic at the Exposition Universelle of 1889
The colonial lens: Gauguin, primitivism, and photography
Henry Adams, indolence, and ethnic tourism in Tahiti
John La Farge and the sensuousness of regret
