Serpent In Paradise
by Birkett, Dea
Author Dea Birkett is inspired to go to Pitcairn Island and contrives a reason and wrangles a grant from the Royal Mail to fulfill her dream of paradise. What she finds is a tiny community of hardy folk who make their island even smaller by their constant presence in each others' lives.
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Serpent in Paradise: Among the People of the Bounty
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New York: Anchor Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. xvi 3 297. ""Serpent in Paradise is an accomplished piece of travel writing about life in one of the world's most unusual places. It is also a deeper examination of the place Pitcairn Island in particular occupies in many imaginations, of the lure of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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