| #4879109 in Books | 2008-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.90 x5.00l,.50 | File type: PDF | 284 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Originality on an historical tail|By kimberley crawford|COCONUT CHAOS Diana Souhami
Reviewed by: Kimberley Crawford 16th May 2014
Diana Souhami is a brilliant contemporary biographer and produces this story in her usual witty original manner. This novel intertwines fact and fiction and is dispersed throughout with autobiographical anecdotes. |"wonderfully odd, charming and very funny" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "deliriously bonkers travelogue-come-adventure yarn" INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY "a rare book, daring, clever and unique" WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY|About the Author|
A personal voyage to obscure Pitcairn Island, with profound modern echoes of the Bounty mutineers who settled there, this story moves from a simple, random event to its complex connections. Its conceptual core is how a small, chance thing—the taking of a coconut by Fletcher Christian from William Bligh's stores on the ship—had dramatic ramifications that continue today. The analogy is with chaos theory in science: how a small variation in conditions...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Coconut Chaos: Pitcairn, Mutiny and a Seduction at Sea | Diana Souhami. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
