Serpent in Paradise

Serpent in Paradise
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Publisher : Anchor
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ISBN-10 : 9780385488716
ISBN-13 : 0385488718
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Book Synopsis Serpent in Paradise by : Dea Birkett

Download or read book Serpent in Paradise written by Dea Birkett and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1998-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, obsessed like many with the island's image as a secluded Eden and its connection to the mysterious and intriguing Bounty legend, traveled across the Pacific on a cargo ship and became one of the very few outsiders permitted to land on Pitcairn. Although the islanders initially seemed welcoming, they soon wove her into a web of decades-old disputes and thwarted desires. With no means of escape, Birkett's adventure to the other side of nowhere at last became a kind of prison.


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