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Автор: Kathy Marks
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      TROUBLE IN

      PARADISE

       Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island

      KATHY MARKS

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       Dedication

       For my parents

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       7 Key witnesses evaporate

       8 The trials begin

       9 Let’s make-believe

       10 Judgement day

       11 ‘You can’t blame men for being men’

       Part 2—Viewing Pitcairn from a distance

       12 How the myth was forged

       13 Politics, poison and power plays

       14 Britain’s ‘ineffective long-range benevolence’

       15 ‘I just did my job and minded my own business’

       16 Interdependence + silence = collusion

       17 Making legal history

       18 The final trials

       19 Reaping a sad legacy since Bounty times

       20 Lord of the Flies?

       21 The last throw of the dice

       Epilogue—Isobel’s story

       Acknowledgements

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Cast of characters

       Historical figures

      Edward Christian (Fletcher’s brother)

      Edward Young (mutineer)

      Fletcher Christian (mutineer)

      Harry Christian (hanged in 1898 for murder of wife and baby)

      John Adams (mutineer and community leader)

      Maimiti (Fletcher Christian’s Tahitian ‘wife’)

      Matthew Quintal (mutineer)

      Peter Heywood (mutineer court-martialled then pardoned)

      William Bligh (captain of Bounty)

      William McCoy (mutineer)

       Media

      Claire Harvey (The Australian; The Times)

      Ewart Barnsley (Television New Zealand)

      Kathy Marks (The Independent; New Zealand Herald)

      Neil Tweedie (The Daily Telegraph; Press Association)

      Sue Ingram (Radio New Zealand)

      Zane Willis (TVNZ)

       Officials and diplomats

      Baroness Patricia Scotland (Former Overseas Territories Minister)

      George Fergusson (Governor at time of writing)

      Grant Pritchard (former Governor’s Representative)

      Harry Maude (British colonial official in 1940s)

      Jenny Lock (former Governor’s Representative)

      Karen Wolstenholme (former Deputy Governor)

      Leon Salt (former Commissioner)

      Leslie