Miscellany of Pitcairn's Island, The / Ford, Herbert / (PB/1980-1980/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Cover and spine shows some age and fading, but is not worn and book is clean. *

Here is the reader's opportunity for travel. Journey by armchair to a place where there are no taxes and even the usefulness of money is almost nil. Does your artificial, programmed life in Western "Urbania" seem empty? Would you like to go where the individual counts for something? By means of this book you can go to where your next meal grows on a tree, or just beneath the rolling breakers, to where you walk to your work, and where the next encounter with a strange face might be a year or two from now.
The story of the "mutiny on the Bounty" has been told before--as a sea saga, as a romance, as an illustration of patriotism, as a missionary opportunity and as a research project in anthropology. All these facets, and more, converge and focus and continue to speak in the Miscellany, the Pitcairn newspaper.
Like the log of a ship, the Miscellany has recorded objectively and in detail the day to day voyage of Pitcairn
through the seas of time, reflecting the minuses and pluses, the joys and the sorrows, the good and the bad in the experience of the voyager-inhabitants.
As a reader you are privileged to share the almost superhuman struggles, the joys, the deprivations and adventures that only Pitcairn has afforded in all the literature of mankind.
The title of this book retains the original possessive form used by Captain Carteret in naming the island in honor of Major Pitcairn of the British Marines.

Pitcairn--A Brief Sketch of Its Geography and History
Preface
From the Miscellany of Pitcairn's Island
Airplanes
Animals
Ants
Arrowroot
Bells
Birthday Party
Boats
Bomb Tests
Bounty Relics
Canoes
John Christian's Trip
Christmas
The Church
Coat of Arms
Cooperative Store
Cricket
Death
Editorials
Forestry
Gardens
Goats
A Hangi
Harbor
Henderson Island
History
Hula Skirts
Impressions
Island Council
Island News
Island Transport
Ivan's Teeth
Letters to the Editor
Mail
Making a Well
Medical
Miro Wood
Navy Gift
Oeno Island
Painted Leaves
Population
Power on Pitcairn
Princess Alice
Public Work
Queen's Birthday
Radio
School
Sharks
Ships
Slipway
Stamps
Sugar Cane
Tractor
Visit of Bligh
Weddings
Waterspout
Whales
Wind Power
Women

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