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Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book  Edited  with an Introduction  by Sir Charles Lucas  Etc   With a Bibliography and a Map

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register Book Edited with an Introduction by Sir Charles Lucas Etc With a Bibliography and a Map written by PITCAIRN ISLAND. and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register Book written by Pitcairn Islands and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book

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Book The pitcairn island register book  by charles lucas

Download or read book The pitcairn island register book by charles lucas written by Charles Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register Book written by Pitcairn Island and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register Book written by Pitcairn Island and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcairn Island Register

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register written by Edith Mary Woodford and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collection d objet d art et de curiosit  s tableaux

Download or read book Collection d objet d art et de curiosit s tableaux written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pitcairn Island Register

Download or read book Pitcairn Island Register written by Pitcairn Islands and published by . This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a combination from four different sources and indicated by the different fonts; sources are: Pitcairn Island Register - January 5th - December 25th, 1856. Entries made by John Buffett Senior "Beiby" at Cascades, Norfolk Island and during his stay on Pitcairn Island 1856 to February 1874. Entries made in John Buffett Senior's Journal by persons unknown August 1874 - March 1892. Journal of John "Diddar" Buffett Jnr November 1st - 12th 1856 and January 1st 1858 - January 1st-3rd 1873. Different hand from July 1st - 31st 1879. Entry on Tues 5th May 1891 notes - 'grandfather died at half past 9pm' is in the same handwriting from January 1888 to Thurs 31st March 1892."

Book The Pitcairn Island Register Book

Download or read book The Pitcairn Island Register Book written by Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 181 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 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 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 2008 with total page 272 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. Unlike previous volumes, this history takes a look at the Pitcairn Island of the 20th and 21st centuries, examining such subjects as the effect of the World War II and the 2004 sexual abuse trial and conviction of six Pitcairners. Helpful maps and photographs enhance the reader's experience.

Book Lost Paradise

    Book Details:
  • 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 Pitkern Norf   k

Download or read book Pitkern Norf k written by Peter Mühlhäusler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. Most of their descendants subsequently relocated to Norfolk Island. It is an in-depth study of the complex linguistic, ecological and sociohistorical forces that have been involved in the formation and subsequent development of this unique endangered language on both islands."--Publisher's description

Book The Far Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brandon Presser
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2022-03-08
  • ISBN : 1541758595
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Far Land written by Brandon Presser and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full story: an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch—even the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.