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Description of  The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific

A thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape a real-life rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the islands diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairns full story: an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutcheven the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, goes beyond the infamous mutiny on the , offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, its not so different from our own. Read more