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Smoking mirror

by Douglas Rees · 2005

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In Tahiti in the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Joe, a native Californian and a sailor, determines to avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of a gun smuggler known as The White Wolf, and finds an unlikely ally in the artist, Paul Gauguin.

Genre
adventureadventureMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
artistsartistsMore like thisLess of thisfriendshipfriendshipMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisTahitiTahitiMore like thisLess of this
Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 172 pages

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