182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Prologue; Preliminaries and the voyage; Tahiti and the Tahitians; The mutiny to Pitcairn Island; Settlement; Revolt and revenge; The women; Discovery; Children, community and culture; Pitcairn abandoned; Pitcairn resettled; Index.
Biography
Trevor Lummis
