Dark Paradise: Norfolk Island: Isolation, Savagery, Mystery and Muder Tapa dura - 2013

Hachette Austraalia. Fine. 2022. Paperback. 0733628605 . Edges lightly foxed; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Sydney NSW: Hachette Australia, 2013. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 350 pages, indexed, illustrated with black and white plates. The pages are lightly tanned, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy, which appears unread. Trade paperback. "Aren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered. For all of the 220 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and horror. Long - buried bones and axes hint at the violence before Captain Cook arrived and claimed the place for England. And then the horror truly began. From its earliest days, the isolation of life on this rocky outcrop took its toll. Robert Macklin, author of the bestselling SAS SNIPER, tells the vivid, bewitching story of how a unique lifestyle and culture evolved amongst the almost two thousand inhabitants. From a brutal penal colony, a refuge… Leer más

Hachette Austraalia. Fine. 2013. Paperback. 0733628605 . Previous owner's neat name; 154 X 26 X 236 millimeters .

Hachette Australia, 2013. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANAAren't remote South Pacific islands supposed to be paradise? Perhaps, from a distance, Norfolk Island looks a peaceful place lush with tall pines. But look closer and that idyllic facade is shattered.For all of the 220 years we have known it, Norfolk's story has been one of darkness, pain, rage and horror. Long-buried bones and axes hint at the violence before Captain Cook arrived and claimed the place for England. And then the horror truly began. From its earliest days, the isolation of life on this rocky outcrop took its toll.Robert Macklin, author of the bestselling SAS SNIPER, tells the vivid, bewitching story of how a unique lifestyle and culture evolved amongst the almost two thousand inhabitants. From a brutal penal colony, a refuge for descendants of the Bounty mutineers when they outgrew Pitcairn Island in 1856, to the murder of Janelle Patton in 2002, Norfolk Island is exposed like never before. A place full of shadows and wrongful… Leer más