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Bora Bora
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The SS Paul Gauguin, spotted in Papeete port
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The tower on Point Venus, Tahiti, where Captain Cook observed the transit of Venus in 1769.
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Ancient temple site
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Ancient temple site
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A Tiki on Hiva Oa: an ancient figure of worship. What looks like spectacles represents tattoos around the eyes.
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Tahiti sunset
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In the market, Papeete
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Anyone for a pearl bikini?
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Fish which reminded the author of a Roman mosaic
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A pattern in the sand on Hiva Oa
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Recreation of Gauguin’s hut in Atuona, showing the well in the foreground.
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Atuona on the island of Hiva Oa, where Gauguin lived his last years.
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On the way to look at ruins, he insisted on carrying the author.
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The author working very hard
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Volcanic sunset
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Gauguin’s grave on Hiva Oa
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The author at Gauguin’s grave with Oviri
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Tahiti sublime
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Mount Pilatus where Nietzsche and Wagner philosophised.
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Tribschen, Wagner’s house.
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Sils-Maria, Nietzsche’s favourite place on earth.
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The high path of Sils-Maria.
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The Zarathustra Rock, where Nietzsche discovered the Eternal Recurrence.
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The Nietzsche House, Sils-Maria.
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An angel on the Sacro Monte where Lou Salome and Nietzsche kissed – or didn’t.
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The path up Sacro Monte.
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Sacro Monte from across the lake.
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The Scream is projected on the Sotheby’s building the night it is sold for $120 million, New York, May 2012. Sue Prideaux consultant on sale.
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The author at Strindberg’s statue in Stockholm.
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Platform talk after production of Strindberg’s ‘Dance of Death’.
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The author’s grandfather striking an attitude.
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The author
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The author’s godmother Henriette Olsen, painted by Edvard Munch.
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The author and Karl Ove after their conversation at the British Museum, 10th May 2019.
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The author at the British Museum, talking on Edvard Munch, 16th May 2019.
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The author and Karl Ove in conversation at the British Museum, 10th May 2019.
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‘I Am Dynamite!’ at Blackwells in Oxford.
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The author at the Edinburgh Book Festival, interviewed by Stuart Kelly, literary editor of The Scotsman.
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The author receiving the James Tait Black Prize, pictured with Ian McEwan and Ian Rankin.
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The author at the British Museum with the Italian film crew making a film on Edvard Munch, to be released in 2020.