PacificVisions
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From The Author: To be found guilty of Mutiny in 1789 meant certain death by hanging froma warships' yardarm. Where then, could a small band of desperate mutineersseek refuge from menacing natives, short tempers and certainly not least,the King's men; then lie hidden from the world for nearly twenty years untildiscovery? Whatever happened to the infamous mutineer, Fletcher Christian,nemesis of William Bligh, Captain of H.M.A.V. Bounty?... In the annals of history few subjects have captured the imagination morethan the famed "Mutiny Of the Bounty", but what about the restof the story? Here on Video for the first time ever is an authenic personalaccount featuring more than a year of life on Pitcairn as it was and asit is today. Only one mile by two and 3000 miles from the nearest continent,Pitcairn is the present day home of forty-eight descendants of the BountyMutineers... Twelve years in the making this timeless work promises to tap your curiosityand draw your attention from chapter to chapter. The inhabitants of Adamstown,a remote, semi-closed society, have graciously participated in this production.Two separate voyages across the world's greatest ocean resulting in twoyears residency on Pitcairn's Island gave me a certain insight into theirlives. As a young boy I wondered how it would be to live with them, to knoweach and every one and to experience present-day life with the Pitcairnesea warm, loving, industrious and hospitable people...
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