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Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, obsessed both by the island's enduring image as a secluded Eden, and by the Bounty legend, traveled across the Pacific in a cargo ship and became one of the very few outsiders permitted to land on Pitcairn. Longing to fit in with the islanders, Birkett lived with a Pitcairner family for five months. Initially welcoming, the islanders gradually began to whisper rumors about Birkett, to mount indirect attacks on her character. As she came to realize that being a Pitcairner means more than climbing cliffs and weaving baskets, Birkett saw the darker face of paradise: Pitcairners sacrifice their individuality to the good of the group; with no way to evade their neighbors' watchful eyes, the islanders have no privacy. The island paradise became at last a kind of prison.
An engrossing narrative, Serpent in Paradise is an accomplished piece of travel writing about life in one of the world's most unusual places. It is also a deeper examination of the place Pitcairn Island in particular occupies in many imaginations, of the lure of the mythical island paradise, and finally at the dark side of this myth.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some reading and cover creases, some shelf wear, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Jo Hassall. ; 320 pages; Pitcairn in the South Pacific is home to 38 islanders, the descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers. After two years' persistence and a 4000-mile sea voyage, Dea Birkett realized her dream of reaching Pitcairn. Yet behind the idyll lay huge dangers, and she found herself caught up in a web of intrigue, decades-old disputes and thwarted desires. Seller Inventory # 29070