Serpent in Paradise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385488716)

Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock. Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world. For two centuries, "Fletcher Christian's children," whose culture and language are a bizarre blend of Polynesian and eighteenth-century English, have lived out a unique social experiment.

Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, obsessed like many with the island's image as a secluded Eden and its connection to the mysterious and intriguing Bounty legend, traveled across the Pacific on a cargo ship and became one of the very few outsiders permitted to land on Pitcairn. Although the islanders initially seemed welcoming, they soon wove her into a web of decades-old disputes and thwarted desires. With no means of escape, Birkett's adventure to the other side of nowhere at last became a kind of prison.

Author: Dea Birkett
ISBN-10: 0385488718
ISBN-13: 9780385488716
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/17/1998
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.20w x 0.73d