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The Myth of Tahiti in the Heart of Europe

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2008

Abstract

Jan Havlasa and A. V.

Novák introduced the myth of Tahiti as a lost paradise into their country in the 1920?s. Their stories, written in French Polynesia, motivated more than one hundred Czechs to move to Tahiti between 1923 and 1938.