The author recounts her journey to Pitcairn Island--home to thirty-eight descendants of the Bounty mutineers--detailing how this island paradise has become a prison to its inhabitants

Product Description: After months of travelling on the African Continent, all Dea Birkett wanted was an easy passage home to Britain. However, as passenger ships no longer sail the route, Dea was obliged to sign up as a member of crew on a working cargo vessel...read more

Product Description: Victorian traveller Mary Kingsley has been portrayed as a victim of nineteenth-century attitudes towards women, a brave and daring explorer, an anti-imperialist agitator and even a feminist heroine. In this challenging and controversial new biography, Dea Birkett breaks through the shallow clichs which have defined this extraordinary female figure to frame a new image of the traveller as actively constructing her own history...read more