The Miscellany of Pitcairn's Island Author:Herbert Ford The story of the "mutiny on the Bounty" has been told before-as a sea saga, as a romance, as an illustration of patriotism, as a missionary opportunity and as a research project in anthropology. All of these facets, and more, converge and focus and continue to speak in the Miscellany, the Pitcairn Island newspaper. Like the log of a ship, the ... more »Miscellany has recorded objectively and in detail the day-to-day voyage of Pitcairn through the seas of time, reflecting the minuses and the pluses, the joys and the sorrows, the good and the bad in the experience of the voyager-inhabitants. As a reader you are privileged to share the almost superhuman struggles, the joys, the deprivations and adventures that only Pitcairn has afforded in all the literature of mankind. The title of this book retains the original possessive form used by Captain Carteret in naming the island in honor of Major Pitcairn of the British Marines.« less