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Synopsis
A personal voyage to obscure Pitcairn Island, with profound modern echoes of the Bounty mutineers who settled there, this story moves from a simple, random event to its complex connections. Its conceptual core is how a small, chance thing—the taking of a coconut by Fletcher Christian from William Bligh's stores on the ship—had dramatic ramifications that continue today. The analogy is with chaos theory in science: how a small variation in conditions can result in dynamic transformations elsewhere. The vivid narrative includes mutiny, travel, biography, incest, murder and rape, science and technology, fantasy, and selective history. Sea voyages, most of them extraordinary, drive the narrative forward, the author's own journey to Pitcairn where Fletcher Christian hid to escape punishment; Bligh's navigation to Timor in violent weather, without maps, in a small boat, with scant supplies and starving men; and the voyage to England with mutineers in chains and their shipwreck. Never a "one thing after another" story, this tale is a metaphorical voyage that leads to the chaos of Pitcairn's unlawfulness today.
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About the Author
Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, including Selkirk's Island, which won the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award, and Wild Girls, nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards. She has also written plays for radio and television.
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"wonderfully odd, charming and very funny" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "deliriously bonkers travelogue-come-adventure yarn" INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "a rare book, daring, clever and unique" WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0753823675
- ISBN 13 9780753823675
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages284
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