Serpent in Paradise

I enjoyed this book. The story of a woman who visited Pitcairn as a journalist, Utopias Elsewhere gives us a look inside and extremely insular community challnged by a long term decline in population and a culture that has tremendous mistrust of outsiders. Perhaps for good reason. I read this book before the revelations about pedophilia in the community, and found it interesting that this side of the society was so carefully kept from the author. I empathized with both the writer and the full time residents -- who surely are tired of being viewed as cultures in a test tube. A very good read about a place that doesn't have many windows into its soul.

Beschrijving van haar verblijf op Pitcairn. Het paradijs blijkt toch niet zo idyllisch te zijn. Uiteindelijk ontvlucht ze het eiland vanwege roddel. Pitcairn is het eiland waar de muiters van de Bounty hun toevlucht zochten. De huidige bewoners zijn afstammelingen van deze muiters.