Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock.
She lives in London..
She is the author of Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers and Jella: From Lagos to Liverpool--A Woman at Sea in a Man\'s World, both of which were published in the United Kingdom.
She works as a freelance writer; her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout Britian and America.
About the Author: Dea Birkett grew up in the south of England and was educated in Edinburgh, London, and the United States.
With no means of escape, Birkett\'s adventure to the other side of nowhere at last became a kind of prison.
Although the islanders initially seemed welcoming, they soon wove her into a web of decades-old disputes and thwarted desires.
Acclaimed British travel writer and journalist Dea Birkett, obsessed like many with the island\'s image as a secluded Eden and its connection to the mysterious and intriguing Bounty legend, traveled across the Pacific on a cargo ship and became one of the very few outsiders permitted to land on Pitcairn.
For two centuries, "Fletcher Christian\'s children," whose culture and language are a bizarre blend of Polynesian and eighteenth-century English, have lived out a unique social experiment.
Home to thirty-eight islanders--descendants of the Bounty mutineers--Pitcairn has no cars, no crime, no doctor, and no regular contact with the outside world.
Lost in the surf of the South Pacific lies a speck of volcanic rock
