Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789-1989
Author: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 170
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Author: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter FitzSimons
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 0733634125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave. Under the leadership of Fletcher Christian most of the crew mutinied soon after sailing from Tahiti, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crewmen adrift in a small open boat. In one of history's great feats of seamanship, Bligh navigated this tiny vessel for 3618 nautical miles to Timor. Fletcher Christian and the mutineers sailed back to Tahiti, where most remained and were later tried for mutiny. But Christian, along with eight fellow mutineers and some Tahitian men and women, sailed off into the unknown, eventually discovering the isolated Pitcairn Island - at the time not even marked on British maps - and settling there. This astonishing story is historical adventure at its very best, encompassing the mutiny, Bligh's monumental achievement in navigating to safety, and Fletcher Christian and the mutineers' own epic journey from the sensual paradise of Tahiti to the outpost of Pitcairn Island. The mutineers' descendants live on Pitcairn to this day, amid swirling stories and rumours of past sexual transgressions and present-day repercussions. Mutiny on the Bounty is a sprawling, dramatic tale of intrigue, bravery and sheer boldness, told with the accuracy of historical detail and total command of story that are Peter FitzSimons' trademarks.
Author: William Bligh
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Published: 1986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir John Barrow
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1775450147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA must-read for true-crime buffs and fans of maritime history, The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences is widely recognized as the most detailed historical account of the mutiny on the Bounty that has spawned dozens of novels, movies, and other pop-culture retellings.
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 236
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Author: Philip MacDougall
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1843836696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe naval mutinies of 1797 were unprecedented in scale and impressive in their level of organisation. This volume focuses on new research, re-evaluating the causes and events which led to the seamen's revolts.
Author: William Bligh
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-05-01
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780140439168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began what would be the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to safety in Timor. The mutineers led by Fletcher Christian sailed off into a mystery that has never been entirely resolved. While the full story of what drove the men to revolt or what really transpired during the struggle may never be known, Penguin Classics has brought together-for the first time in one volume-all the relevant texts and documents related to a drama that has fascinated generations. Here is the full text of Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny, the minutes of the court proceedings gathered by Edward Christian in an effort to clear his brother's name, and the highly polemic correspondence between Bligh and Christian-all amplified by Robert Madison's illuminating Introduction and rich selection of subsequent Bounty narratives. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0802795870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the tragic voyage of the British ship to the island of Tahiti.
Author: Edward Willett
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780766031289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the Bounty mutiny and subsequent trials of its participants, including the mutineers plans, the journey of the ship, the trial of the mutineers, and the movies made about the story"--