(The Mutiny of the Bounty and Pitcairn) Fifteen works Rev Th...

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(The Mutiny of the Bounty and Pitcairn) Fifteen works Rev Thomas Boyles Murray. 'Pitcairn: The Island, The People, and The Pastor; With a Short Account of The Mutiny of the Bounty,' fifth edition, original blue cloth rebacked, inscription to front endpapers, title page detaching, some finger soiling and spotting, frontis and plates, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1855; Rosalind Amelia Young. 'Mutiny of the Bounty and Story of Pitcairn 1790-1894,' third edition illustrated, heavy staining/bleaching to original decorative cloth, ink inscription to ffep, frontis detached, despite faults vg textblock with plates and illustrations, Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, California, [c.1894]; R. M. Carter. 'The Geology of Pitcairn Island. South Pacific,' printed card wraps, b+w photographic illustrations, folded map in pocket to rear wrap, vg to fine, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1967; With three modern colour publications produced from the Island; Glynn Christian. 'Fragile Paradise. the Discovery of Fletcher Christian Bounty Mutineer,' first edition, lacks dj, original cloth, illustrations, vg, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982; John Bach (ed). 'The Bligh Notebook. Rough account-Lieutenant Wm Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor 28 April to 14 June 1789 With a draft list of the Bounty mutineers,' original cloth, unclipped dj, facsimile to rear, fine, Allen & Unwin, in association with the National Library of Australia, 1987; With seven other works. (15) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.