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The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808, when American sealing vessel Topaz stopped at the island, John Adams was the only mutineer alive. He, however, headed what was soon discovered to be a utopianlike Christian society.
Beginning with a background look at the circumstances surrounding the mutiny, this volume contains a detailed history of the Pitcairn Islanders from the original settlement through the opening years of the 21st century. The island's isolation is contrasted with the international attention garnered from its captivating history, making the society a one-of-a-kind historical conundrum. Helpful maps and photographs enhance the reader's experience.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Herbert Ford
Introduction: The Island as Icon
1. Pitcairn Discovered
2. Bread That Grows on Trees!
3. Destination Tahiti
4. Captain Bligh vMrChristian
5. The Famous Captain Bligh
6. With the Mutineers
7. An Almost Perfect Hideaway
8. Early Visitors: 1814-1825
9. Captain Beechey Learns the Bloody Details
10. Death of the Patriarch
11. Fatal Tahitian Sojourn
12. "The Mussolini of Pitcairn"
13. A Busy Port of Call: 1839-1849
14. Emergency Ward
15. Before the Separation
16. The Move to Norfolk Island
17. Return to Pitcairn
18. Shipwrecks and Hysteria
19. Pitkern and Place Names
20. Conversion, Constitution—and Murder
21. Into a New Century: 1900-1928
22. What Depression? The 1930s
23. War and a Windfall: 1939-1959
24. Population in Freefall: 1960-1979
25. Dreams of Smiley's Millions ... And a Dream Realized
26. Bicentennial Decade
27. Island on Trial
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
