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Serpent in Paradise Paperback - 1998
by Birkett, Dea
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- Title Serpent in Paradise
- Author Birkett, Dea
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Anchor Books
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-08-17
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU1168250
- ISBN 9780385488716 / 0385488718
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.97 x 5.2 x 0.73 in (20.24 x 13.21 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Australian
- Cultural Region: Oceania
- Dewey Decimal Code 919.61
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Summary
Author Dea Birkett is inspired to go to Pitcairn Island and contrives a reason and wrangles a grant from the Royal Mail to fulfill her dream of paradise. What she finds is a tiny community of hardy folk who make their island even smaller by their constant presence in each others' lives.
From the jacket flap
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.
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.