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The far land, 200 years of murder, mania, and mutiny in the South Pacific, Brandon Presser

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The far land

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1298912681

Brandon Presser

200 years of murder, mania, and mutiny in the South Pacific

"In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing the HMS Bounty almost two decades prior, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly twenty years of isolation, its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape: a real-life Lord of the Flies rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the island's diabolical past still looms over its forty-eight residents, descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, and visits just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among Pitcairn's present-day families. Told through ... historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it's not so different from our own."--, Provided by publisher

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