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"A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, there's never been a true...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders - descendants of the Bounty mutineers - Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two centuries "Fletcher Christian's children," whose culture and language are a bizarre blend of Polynesian and eighteenth-century English, have lived out a unique social experiment.
Each year the islanders are inundated...
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