Pitcairn Island as a Port of Call: A Record, 1790-2010, 2d ed.

by Herbert Ford

Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, often lethal surf and sudden gales, the island's standing as the home of the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his mutineer cohorts from H.M.S. Bounty has drawn thousands of ships to its shores. This maritime history of the island chronicles every ship that has called at Pitcairn from the time of the arrival of the mutineers in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786466049
• ISBN13: 9780786466047
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher