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Book Pitcairn

Download or read book Pitcairn written by Thomas Boyles Murray and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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

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 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pitcairn

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  • Author : HardPress
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2013-06
  • ISBN : 9781314259803
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Pitcairn written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Pitcairn  the Island  the People  and the Pastor

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 1853 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Paradise

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  • Author : Kathy Marks
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2009-02-03
  • ISBN : 1416597840
  • Pages : 353 pages

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 Pitcairn

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  • Author : Thomas Boyles Murray
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1857
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Pitcairn written by Thomas Boyles Murray and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call

Download or read book Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call written by Herbert Ford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, often lethal surf and sudden gales, the island's standing as the home of the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutineer cohorts from H.M.S. Bounty has drawn thousands of ships to its shores. This maritime history of the island chronicles every ship that has called at Pitcairn from the time of the arrival of the mutineers in 1790 to December 2010. The ship's log format lists the date of each call, the ship's name and particulars, and brief reports of activities during the call, which often include matters of love, murder, survival, intrigue, shipwreck, romance, and much more. Since Pitcairn remains totally dependent on ships for its survival, this work offers the most thorough historical record of the island and its people.

Book DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRNS ISLAN

Download or read book DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRNS ISLAN written by John Sir Barrow, 1764-1848 and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Pitcairn  the Island  the People and the Pastor

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:

Book Pitcairn

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  • Author : Thomas Boyles Murray
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1857
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Pitcairn written by Thomas Boyles Murray and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pitcairn Island  the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants

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 Pitcairn s Island

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:

Book Pitcairn

Download or read book Pitcairn written by Thomas Boyles Murray and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pitcairn  the Island  the People  and the Pastor  with a Short Account of the Mutiny of the Bounty

Download or read book Pitcairn the Island the People and the Pastor with a Short Account of the Mutiny of the Bounty written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book A Description of Pitcairn s Island and Its Inhabitants

Download or read book A Description of Pitcairn s Island and Its Inhabitants written by John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Description of Pitcairn s Island and Its Inhabitants

Download or read book A Description of Pitcairn s Island and Its Inhabitants written by Sir John Barrow and published by Haskell House. This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: