Dark Paradise: Norfolk Island: Isolation, Savagery, Mystery and Murder by Robert Macklin

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small foxing marks on title page and right foredge.

Robert Macklin tells the vivid, bewitching story of how a unique lifestyle and culture evolved amongst 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 deaths, its history is a mesmerising tale all the more powerful because it is true. (Backcover)