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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9781416597445
- Book Title
- Lost Paradise : From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Social History, General, Anthropology / General, Oceania
- Item Weight
- 19.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1416597441
ISBN-13
9781416597445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69633793
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lost Paradise : From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Sociology / General, Social History, General, Anthropology / General, Oceania
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
19.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-026787
Reviews
"Tautly told and often troubling,Lost Paradisecracks open the celluloid myth of the world's most celebrated island to expose the dark human drama within. Like Jon Krakauer'sUnder the Banner of Heaven,it's unsettling, inspiring -- and very, very haunting."-- John Tayman, author ofThe Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
996.1/8
Table Of Content
Author's NoteCast of CharactersFamily TreesChristian clanBrown familyWarren clanYoung familyProloguePART 1ON THE ISLAND1 A Surreal Little Universe in the Middle of Nowhere2 Mutiny, Murder, and Myth-Making3 Opening a Right Can of Worms4 No Amnesty5 The Fiefdom and Its Leader6 The Propaganda Campaign Starts7 Key Witnesses Evaporate8 The Trials Begin9 Let's Make Believ10 Judgment Day11 "You Can't Blame Men for Being Men"PART 2VIEWING PITCAIRN FROM A DISTANCE12 How the Myth Was Forged13 Politics, Poison, and Power Plays14 Britain's "Ineffective Long-Range Benevolence"15 "I Just Did My Job and Minded My Own Business"16 Interdependence + Silence = Collusion17 Making Legal History18 The Final Trials19 Reaping a Sad Legacy Since Bounty Times20Lord of the Flies?21 The Last Throw of the DicEpilogue: Isobel's storyAcknowledgmentsIndex
Synopsis
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 theMutiny on the Bountycrew, 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-lifeLord 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., On the South Seas island made famous by "Mutiny on the Bounty, Lost Paradise" chronicles life in a remote community, offering a horrifying glimpse at the darkness of human nature, where an unregulated society descends into savagery. bw photos.
LC Classification Number
DU800.M27 2008
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