false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176250983m/607659.jpg 607659 2 <DIV><DIV>A personal voyage to obscure Pitcairn Island, with profound modern echoes of the Bounty mutineers who settled there, this story moves from a simple, random event to its complex connections. Its conceptual core is how a small, chance thing—the taking of a coconut by Fletcher Christian from William Bligh's stores on the ship—had dramatic ramifications that continue today. The analogy is with chaos theory in science: how a small variation in conditions can result in dynamic transformations elsewhere. The vivid narrative includes mutiny, travel, biography, incest, murder and rape, science and technology, fantasy, and selective history. Sea voyages, most of them extraordinary, drive the narrative forward, the author's own journey to Pitcairn where Fletcher Christian hid to escape punishment; Bligh's navigation to Timor in violent weather, without maps, in a small boat, with scant supplies and starving men; and the voyage to England with mutineers in chains and their shipwreck. Never a "one thing after another" story, this tale is a metaphorical voyage that leads to the chaos of Pitcairn's unlawfulness today.</DIV></DIV> 594170 book 12 4 2007 Pitcairn, Mutiny and a Seduction at Sea ... total:2|3:2| 2 6 5 1 3 0 false false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 05:24:39 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 05:41:13 -0700 2008
The material behind this book was absolutely amazing - basically the book is part history of the mutiny on the HMS Boun...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 14 22:44:57 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 22:44:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 15 10:10:19 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 10:10:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 02:44:03 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 10:58:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 16 09:15:51 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 09:15:58 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=607659