Pitcairn

Author : Ian M. Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Bounty (Ship)
ISBN : 0316079383

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Pitcairn: Children of Mutiny by Ian M. Ball Pdf

Author : Kathy Marks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781416597841

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Lost Paradise by Kathy Marks Pdf

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.

Author : Richard H. Pitcairn,Susan Hubble Pitcairn
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781623367565

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Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats (4th Edition) by Richard H. Pitcairn,Susan Hubble Pitcairn Pdf

For more than 30 years, Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats has been the go-to resource for health-conscious animal lovers. This fourth edition is updated with the latest information in natural pet health, including groundbreaking research on the benefits of vegan diets for pets, as well as nutritionally complete recipes to give your pets optimal health that you can also enjoy, making home prepared diets easier than ever. The Pitcairns also discuss behavior issues, general nutrition, and a more humane approach to caring for pets. The Pitcairns have long been the trusted name in holistic veterinary care and continue to be at the forefront of natural pet health. Written with the same compassion and conviction, the fourth edition of Natural Health for Dogs & Cats will help you give your beloved animals the healthiest, happiest life.

Author : Sir John Barrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Pitcairn Island
ISBN : UCAL:$B599712

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A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants by Sir John Barrow Pdf

Author : James Norman Hall,Charles Nordhoff
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338120052

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Pitcairn's Island by James Norman Hall,Charles Nordhoff Pdf

Pitcairn's Island follows the Bounty mutineers as they try to settle and found colony in the islands of the South Seas. After two unsuccessful attempts to settle on the island of Tubuai, the Bounty mutineers returned to Tahiti where they parted company. Fletcher Christian and eight of his men, together with eighteen Polynesians, sailed from Tahiti in September 1789, and for a period of eighteen years nothing was heard of them. Then, in 1808, the American sailing vessel Topaz discovered a thriving community of mixed blood on Pitcairn Island under the rule of Alexander Smith.

Author : Charles Nordhoff,James Norman Hall
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338085467

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Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff,James Norman Hall Pdf

Pitcairn's Island is the third episode in the fictional trilogy by Charles Nordhoff about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. Excerpt: "The shadows were long in the clearing, for it was late afternoon. Grass was already beginning to hide the ashes about the blackened stumps. As he sat on the doorstep of his house, the slope of the ground to the west gave Williams a view of the sea above the tree-tops. Snow-white terns, in pairs, sailed back and forth overhead. It was their mating season and they were pursuing one another, swooping and tumbling in aerial play. No wind was astir; the air, saturated with moisture, was difficult to breathe. Williams rose, cursing the heat, went to the small cookhouse behind his cabin, and kindled a fire to prepare his evening meal. At last the sun set angrily, behind masses of banked-up clouds, dull crimson and violet. It was not a night for sleep. The blacksmith was on foot before dawn, and the first grey of morning found him crossing the ridge, on his way to Christian's house."

Author : Walter Brodie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Bounty Mutiny, 1789
ISBN : WISC:89005891387

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Pitcairn's Island, and the Islanders, in 1850 by Walter Brodie Pdf

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590256847

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The life, voyages, and discoveries, of captain James Cook. [Followed by] Pitcairn's island and the mutineers of the Bounty by James Cook Pdf

Author : Walter Brodie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019636413

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Pitcairn's Island and the islanders, in 1850. By Walter Brodie ... Together with extracts from his private journal, and a few hints upon California; also the reports of all the Commanders of H.M. ships that have touched at the above island since 1800 by Walter Brodie Pdf

Author : Sir John Barrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Bounty Mutiny, 1789
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU13298046

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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 by Sir John Barrow Pdf

Author : John Shillibeer (Lieutenant.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019286560

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Narrative of the Briton's Voyage to Pitcairn's Island ... by John Shillibeer (Lieutenant.) Pdf

Author : John Shillibeer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Brazil
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048556406

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A Narrative of the Briton's Voyage, to Pitcairn's Island by John Shillibeer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bounty Mutiny, 1789
ISBN : OCLC:935230648

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Pitcairn's Island by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Nordhoff,James Norman Hall
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517180988

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Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff,James Norman Hall Pdf

James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887-1947) an English-born American novelist and traveler. Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became "The Bounty Trilogy," which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.

Author : Trevor Lummis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351911023

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Pitcairn Island by Trevor Lummis Pdf

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 Bounty’s voyage, the mutiny and its consequences, but goes further than any previous publications, to relate the gripping drama of subsequent events on Pitcairn - of the fifteen men who landed on the island, only one was alive when they were discovered, twelve had been brutally murdered by their companions and one had commited suicide. The role of the women in shaping events on the island, and their input into the unique identity of the community, is fully considered for the first time. Their support for the men as rival groups-Tahitians or Europeans-or their concern for individuals largely decided which men lived and died, while the women themselves commited some of the murders. Conflicts over property, race and gender brought this group close to total destruction. But out of the clashes of cultures and individual wills between European mutineers and Pacific islanders came, in a brief space of time, the new community of ’Pitcairn Islanders’: a thriving society based on progressive laws relating to sexual equality and the environment, with significant resonances for the reader some two centuries later.