Pitcairn's Island (novel)

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name = Pitcairn's Island
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author = Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
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country = United States
language = English
series = The "Bounty" Trilogy
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genre = Historical, Novel
publisher = Little, Brown and Company
release_date = 1934
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
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preceded_by = "Mutiny on the "Bounty" and "Men Against the Sea"

"Pitcairn's Island" is the third installment in the trilogy by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about the mutiny aboard the Bounty. It is preceded by "Mutiny on the "Bounty"" and "Men Against the Sea". The original copyright date is 1934 by Little, Brown and Company.

Plot Overview

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 s thriving community of mixed blood on Pitcairn Island under the rule of Alexander Smith the only survivor of the fifteen men who had landed there so long before.

References

* Preface to "The Bounty Trilogy" by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall