Pitcairn's Island
James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff
Belletristik / Historische Romane und Erzählungen
Beschreibung
Pitcairn's Island follows the Bounty mutineers as they try to settle and found colony in the islands of the South Seas. After two unsuccessful attempts to settle on the island of Tubuai, the Bounty mutineers returned to Tahiti where they parted company. Fletcher Christian and eight of his men, together with eighteen Polynesians, sailed from Tahiti in September 1789, and for a period of eighteen years nothing was heard of them. Then, in 1808, the American sailing vessel Topaz discovered a thriving community of mixed blood on Pitcairn Island under the rule of Alexander Smith.
Kundenbewertungen
South Seas adventure, colonial era exploration, Bounty mutineers survival, mutineer descendants community, Pitcairn Island colony, Pacific Ocean settlements, Polynesian cultural interactions, seafaring historical narrative, historical maritime fiction, 18th century mutiny