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Marks, Kathy.
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Social problems -- Pitcairn Island.
Rape -- Pitcairn Island.
Pitcairn Islands -- History.
Pitcairn Islands -- Social conditions.
Pitcairn Islands -- Race relations.
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Marks, Kathy.
Social problems -- Pitcairn Island.
Rape -- Pitcairn Island.
Pitcairn Islands -- History.
Pitcairn Islands -- Social conditions.
Pitcairn Islands -- Race relations.
MARC Display
Lost
paradise
: from
Mutiny
on the
Bounty
to a
modern-day
legacy
of
sexual
mayhem
, the
dark
secrets
of
Pitcairn
island
revealed
/ Kathy Marks.
by
Marks, Kathy.
Free Press, 2009.
Call #:
996.18 M346L
Subjects
Social problems --
Pitcairn
Island
.
Rape --
Pitcairn
Island
.
Pitcairn
Islands -- History.
Pitcairn
Islands -- Social conditions.
Pitcairn
Islands -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781416597445
1416597441
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Description:
xxiii, 326 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Map on endpapers.
Contents:
Surreal little universe in the middle of nowhere --
Mutiny
, murder, and myth-making -- Opening a right can of worms -- No amnesty -- The fiefdom and its leader -- The propaganda campaign starts -- Key witnesses evaporate -- The trials begin -- Let's make believe -- Judgment day -- "You can't blame men for being men" -- How the myth was forged -- Politics, poison, and power plays -- Britain's "ineffective long-range benevolence" -- "I just did my job and minded my own business" -- Interdependence + silence = collusion -- Making legal history -- The final trials -- Reaping a sad
legacy
since
Bounty
times -- Lord of the flies? -- The last throw of the dice -- Epilogue: Isobel's story.
Summary:
Remote
Pitcairn
Island
, a place of towering cliffs and lashing surf, is home to descendants of Fletcher Christian and the
Bounty
crew, who fled there with a group of Tahitian maidens after deposing Captain Bligh in 1789. Shrouded in myth, the
island
was considered a tropical Shangri-La by outsiders--but as the world discovered two centuries later, it was also a place of sinister
secrets
. In 2000, police descended on the British territory to investigate an allegation of child rape, and uncovered a trail of child abuse dating back at least three generations. Most islanders, including the victims' mothers, claimed it was the
Pitcairn
"way of life." The ensuing trials commanded worldwide attention and tore the close-knit, interrelated community apart. Journalist Kathy Marks lived on
Pitcairn
for six weeks and observed how the tiny, claustrophobic community ticked: the gossip, the feuding, the intimacy--and the power dynamics that had allowed the abuse to flourish.
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