Transit of Venus. A book on the life of Mauatua /Maimiti, Pre-European Tahiti and Pitcairn. - by Rowan Metcalfe

Fletcher Christian's Tahitian wife Mauatua (Miamiti) and her friends and relatives speak directly to us in beautiful and startlingly perceptive ways as they move away  from their homeland and pass into the feverish intensity of drunkenness, lust and murder that marks the early years on Pitcairn.  In so doing they assert their place in a story that has fascinated readers for generations.