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001 2008026787
003 DLC
005 20090311094253.0
008 080618s2009 nyuabf 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008026787
020 $a9781416597445
020 $a1416597441
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn232358180
035 $a(OCoLC)232358180
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050 00 $aDU800$b.M27 2009
082 00 $a996.1/8$222
100 1 $aMarks, Kathy.
245 10 $aLost paradise :$bfrom Mutiny on the Bounty to a modern-day legacy of sexual mayhem, the dark secrets of Pitcairn island revealed /$cKathy Marks.
250 $a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c2009.
300 $axxiii, 326 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $aMap on endpapers.
520 $aRemote 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.--From publisher description.
651 0 $aPitcairn Island$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial problems$zPitcairn Island.
651 0 $aPitcairn Island$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aPitcairn Island$xRace relations.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008026787-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008026787-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008026787-s.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008026787-t.html