The Pretender of Pitcairn Island

A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.

This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th centur

Being a series of questions and answers on practical matters for the information of everybody, selected from that department of the Inter ocean known as Our cur