Serpent in Paradise

Description:

Author Dea Birkett is inspired to go to Pitcairn Island and contrives a reason and wrangles a grant from the Royal Mail to fulfill her dream of paradise. What she finds is a tiny community of hardy folk who make their island even smaller by their constant presence in each others' lives.

subjects: Birkett, Dea, 1958-,  Oceania,  Description and travel,  Journeys,  Travel,  Birkett, Dea,,  Pitcairn island,  Pitcairn islands,  Pacific area, description and travel

People: Dea Birkett (1958-)

Places: Pitcairn Island

Times: 1991