| The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island Contributor(s): Becke, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1985274361 ISBN-13: 9781985274365 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.70 lbs) 234 pages |
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| Publisher Description: IT was night at Tahiti, in the Society Islands. The trade-wind had died away, and a bright flood of shimmering moonlight poured down upon the slumbering waters of a little harbour a few miles distant from Matavai Bay, and the white curve or beach that fringed the darkened line of palms shone and glistened like a belt of ivory under the effulgence of its rays. For nearly half a mile the broad sweep of dazzling sand showed no interruption nor break upon its surface save at one spot; there it ran out into a long narrow point, on which, under a small cluster of graceful cocos, growing almost at the water's edge, a canoe was drawn up. Seated upon the platform of the outrigger, and conversing in low tones, were a man and woman. The man was an European, dressed in the uniform of a junior naval officer at the end of the last century. He was of medium height, with a dark, gipsy-like complexion and wavy brown hair, and as he drew the woman's face to him and kissed her, her skin showed not so dark as his. |