Transit of VenusHuia Publishers, 2004 - 290 sidor Countless writers and film-makers have been drawn to the story of the mutiny on the Bounty, when led by Fletcher Christian, the mutineers set Captain William Bligh and others adrift in a ship's boat. The mutineers returned to Tahiti before making their way to isolated and uninhabited Pitcairn Island. This novel tells the story from a new and unexpected perspective, that of the Tahitian women who joined the Bounty mutineers and sailed away with them to make new lives. Mauatua and her friends and relatives relate the strange journey, away from their home-land and into the feverish intensity of drunkenness, betrayal, and murder that mark the early years on Pitcairn. Along the way, the reader learns of the Tahitians' fascination with Cook and his expedition to observe the transit of Venus across the southern skies, of Tahitian traditions and customs. |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 36
Sida xix
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sida 4
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sida 7
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sida 8
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sida 11
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Sidan har tyvärr begränsat innehåll.
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
Vanliga ord och fraser
already ancestors arms asked baby beat began blood bones Bounty breadfruit breath bring brought called canoe carried chief Christian close cloth coconut coming cousin dancing dark daughter desire died eyes face feathers fire fish flowers followed foreign gave gifts girls gods gone grandmother hair hands head hear heard Hinuia island Itia kill knew land laughed leaves legs light live looked Maimiti marae Matavai mats Mauatua mother mountain never night ocean Pare passed Peretane priests pulled Rehua remembered rolled sacred sail seen servant ship shore shoulders side skin sleep soon spirits stand stay stones Tahiti tattooed tell Teraura Tetua things Titriano told took trees turned Tute voice waiting walked wanted watched wind woman women young