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Pitcairn's Island

by Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall · 1934

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PITCAIRN's ISLAND unfolds a tale of drunkeness, betrayal, murder, and vengeance as it chronicles the fate of Christian, the mutineers, and a handful of Tahitians, who together take refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific.

Subject
history
Genre
historical fictionadventure
Themes
nauticalchildhoodsurvival
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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