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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