- Pitcairn Island, Race relations, Social problems, Social conditions
"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."
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Kathy Marks
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Free Press, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780732282547
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Kathy Marks grew up in Manchester, England, and studied languages. She has been a journalist since 1984, working first for Reuters news agency and then for national newspapers in Britain, including the Daily Telegraph and The Independent. Since 1999 she has been based in Sydney as The Independent’s Asia-Pacific Correspondent, reporting from Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, and the South Pacific. She has covered major stories around the region, including the post-independence violence in East Timor in 1999, the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, the civil war in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and
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