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Book Synopsis Pitcairn's Island by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Pitcairn's Island written by Charles Nordhoff and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn's Island is the third episode in the fictional trilogy by Charles Nordhoff about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. Excerpt: "The shadows were long in the clearing, for it was late afternoon. Grass was already beginning to hide the ashes about the blackened stumps. As he sat on the doorstep of his house, the slope of the ground to the west gave Williams a view of the sea above the tree-tops. Snow-white terns, in pairs, sailed back and forth overhead. It was their mating season and they were pursuing one another, swooping and tumbling in aerial play. No wind was astir; the air, saturated with moisture, was difficult to breathe. Williams rose, cursing the heat, went to the small cookhouse behind his cabin, and kindled a fire to prepare his evening meal. At last the sun set angrily, behind masses of banked-up clouds, dull crimson and violet. It was not a night for sleep. The blacksmith was on foot before dawn, and the first grey of morning found him crossing the ridge, on his way to Christian's house."
Download or read book Pitcairn's Island written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Paradise written by Kathy Marks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn Island -- remote and wild in the South Pacific, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf -- is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Mutiny on the Bounty crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing their captain, William Bligh, and seizing his ship in 1789. Shrouded in myth, the island was idealized by outsiders, who considered it a tropical Shangri-La. But as the world was to discover two centuries after the mutiny, it was also a place of sinister secrets. In this riveting account, Kathy Marks tells the disturbing saga and asks profound questions about human behavior. In 2000, police descended on the British territory -- a lump of volcanic rock hundreds of miles from the nearest inhabited land -- to investigate an allegation of rape of a fifteen-year-old girl. They found themselves speaking to dozens of women and uncovering a trail of child abuse dating back at least three generations. Scarcely a Pitcairn man was untainted by the allegations, it seemed, and barely a girl growing up on the island, home to just forty-seven people, had escaped. Yet most islanders, including the victims' mothers, feigned ignorance or claimed it was South Pacific "culture" -- the Pitcairn "way of life." The ensuing trials would tear the close-knit, interrelated community apart, for every family contained an offender or a victim -- often both. The very future of the island, dependent on its men and their prowess in the longboats, appeared at risk. The islanders were resentful toward British authorities, whom they regarded as colonialists, and the newly arrived newspeople, who asked nettlesome questions and whose daily dispatches were closely scrutinized on the Internet. The court case commanded worldwide attention. And as a succession of men passed through Pitcairn's makeshift courtroom, disturbing questions surfaced. How had the abuse remained hidden so long? Was it inevitable in such a place? Was Pitcairn a real-life Lord of the Flies? One of only six journalists to cover the trials, Marks lived on Pitcairn for six weeks, with the accused men as her neighbors. She depicts, vividly, the attractions and everyday difficulties of living on a remote tropical island. Moreover, outside court, she had daily encounters with the islanders, not all of them civil, and observed firsthand how the tiny, claustrophobic community ticked: the gossip, the feuding, the claustrophobic intimacy -- and the power dynamics that had allowed the abuse to flourish. Marks followed the legal and human saga through to its recent conclusion. She uncovers a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered and codes broken: a paradise truly lost.
Book Synopsis A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants by : Sir John Barrow
Download or read book A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pitcairn's Island and the Islanders, in 1850 by : Walter Brodie
Download or read book Pitcairn's Island and the Islanders, in 1850 written by Walter Brodie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Miscellany of Pitcairn's Island by : Herbert Ford
Download or read book The Miscellany of Pitcairn's Island written by Herbert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pitcairn Island written by Trevor Lummis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn Island was a tiny uninhabited Eden when, in January 1790, Fletcher Christian and eight sailors, together with six Polynesian men, twelve Tahitian women and one baby, landed from HMS Bounty. There they burned their boat, thus eliminating any chance of a voluntary return to the known world. Their disappearance was to remain a mystery for twenty years. This book discusses the purposes of the Bounty’s voyage, the mutiny and its consequences, but goes further than any previous publications, to relate the gripping drama of subsequent events on Pitcairn - of the fifteen men who landed on the island, only one was alive when they were discovered, twelve had been brutally murdered by their companions and one had commited suicide. The role of the women in shaping events on the island, and their input into the unique identity of the community, is fully considered for the first time. Their support for the men as rival groups-Tahitians or Europeans-or their concern for individuals largely decided which men lived and died, while the women themselves commited some of the murders. Conflicts over property, race and gender brought this group close to total destruction. But out of the clashes of cultures and individual wills between European mutineers and Pacific islanders came, in a brief space of time, the new community of ’Pitcairn Islanders’: a thriving society based on progressive laws relating to sexual equality and the environment, with significant resonances for the reader some two centuries later.
Book Synopsis Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders, in 1850 by : Walter Brodie
Download or read book Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders, in 1850 written by Walter Brodie and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bounty Trilogy by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Bounty Trilogy written by Charles Nordhoff and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1985-07-30 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wyeth edition of the three tales of the Bounty.
Book Synopsis Pitcairn Island, the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants by : Robert W. Kirk
Download or read book Pitcairn Island, the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants written by Robert W. Kirk and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808, when American sealing vessel Topaz stopped at the island, John Adams was the only mutineer alive. He, however, headed what was soon discovered to be a utopianlike Christian society. Beginning with a background look at the circumstances surrounding the mutiny, this volume contains a detailed history of the Pitcairn Islanders from the original settlement through the opening years of the 21st century. The island's isolation is contrasted with the international attention garnered from its captivating history, making the society a one-of-a-kind historical conundrum. Helpful maps and photographs enhance the reader's experience.
Book Synopsis Pitcairn's Island and the islanders, in 1850. By Walter Brodie ... Together with extracts from his private journal, and a few hints upon California; also the reports of all the Commanders of H.M. ships that have touched at the above island since 1800 by : Walter Brodie
Download or read book Pitcairn's Island and the islanders, in 1850. By Walter Brodie ... Together with extracts from his private journal, and a few hints upon California; also the reports of all the Commanders of H.M. ships that have touched at the above island since 1800 written by Walter Brodie and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aleck, the Last of the Mutineers; Or, The History of Pitcairn's Island ... by : Nathan Welby Fiske
Download or read book Aleck, the Last of the Mutineers; Or, The History of Pitcairn's Island ... written by Nathan Welby Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants, with an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers by : Sir John Barrow
Download or read book A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants, with an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pitcairn Island by : Maurice Allward
Download or read book Pitcairn Island written by Maurice Allward and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of Pitcairn Island one of the most remote islands in the world telling the story of the Island's discovery, the Mutiny on the Bounty (filmed five times) and the settlement of the island by mutineers and their subsequent settlement of Norfolk Island which ultimately became the most infamous penal settlement of all time.
Book Synopsis The Pretender of Pitcairn Island by : Tillman W. Nechtman
Download or read book The Pretender of Pitcairn Island written by Tillman W. Nechtman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.
Book Synopsis A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants by : Sir John Barrow
Download or read book A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pitcairn: the Island, the People and the Pastor by : Thomas Boyles Murray
Download or read book Pitcairn: the Island, the People and the Pastor written by Thomas Boyles Murray and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
