The Letters of Fletcher Christian
Author: Fletcher Christian
Publisher:
Published: 1796
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780904351293
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The Bounty
Author: Caroline Alexander
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-05-25
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780142004692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHas history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.
Lord Foulgrin's Letters
Author: Randy Alcorn
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 2001-09-13
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1576738612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis repack of Randy Alcorn's gripping bestseller delivers us from ignorance of the devil's schemes. Foulgrin, a high-ranking demon, instructs his subordinate on how to deceive and destroy Jordan Fletcher and his family. It's like placing a bugging device in hell's war room, where we overhear our enemies assessing our weaknesses and strategizing attack. Lord Foulgrin's Letters is a Screwtape Letters for our day, equally fascinating yet destinctly different -- a dramatic story with earthly characters, setting, and plot. A creative, insightful, and biblical depiction of spiritual warfare, this book will guide readers to Christ-honoring counterstrategies for putting on the full armor of God and resisting the devil. Alcorn says to win the battle we must know our God, know ourselves, and know our enemy. Lord Foulgrin's Letters, in unparalleled and compelling fashion, helps us better know each.
Mr Bligh's Bad Language
Author: Greg Dening
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-03-25
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780521467186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox which inspired Greg Dening to ask why the mutiny took place. His book explores the theatrical nature of what was enacted in the power-play on deck, on the beaches at Tahiti and in the murderous settlement at Pitcairn, on the altar stones and temples of sacrifice, and on the catheads from which men were hanged. Part of the key lies in the curious puzzle of Mr Bligh's bad language.
Bligh
Author: Anne Salmond
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 1742287816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players. From 1777, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages – with Captain James Cook in the Resolution, on board the Bounty, and as commander of the Providence. Salmond offers new insights into the mutiny aboard the Bounty – and on Bligh's extraordinary 3000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat – through new revelations from unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. We learn of their passionate relationship, and her unstinting loyalty throughout the trials of his turbulent career and his fight to clear his name. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh as an important ethnographer, adding to the paradoxical legacy of the famed seaman. For the first time, we hear how Bligh and his men were changed by their experiences in the South Seas, and how in turn they changed that island world forever. 'Remarkable . . . The mutiny has inspired some marvellous books, of which this is possibly the finest.' --Jim Eagles, New Zealand Herald
A Narrative of the Briton's Voyage, to Pitcairn's Island
Author: John Shillibeer
Publisher:
Published: 1817
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A very interesting narrative including some curious details regarding the mutiny of the Bounty, and the meeting with the last survivor, John Adam."--Hill.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1989-04-11
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA British crew mutinies against the cruel commander of the Bounty in 1787.
Journal of H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771
Author: James Cook
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHolograph journal of the voyage of H.M.S. Endeavour during which Cook discovered Eastern Australia and circumnavigated New Zealand. Bound with the journal is a copy of a report from John Hutchinson, surgeon of the Dolphin to Capt. Samuel Wallis, 16th May 1768, of observations on the effects of saloop, portable soup, mustard and vinegar, distilled water and beef fat on scurvy. For further details and publications of the journal see J.C. Beaglehole (ed.) "The journals of Captain Cook" I cxciv-cciv.
The Court-martial of the "Bounty" Mutineers
Author: Owen Rutter
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCourt-martial on board H.M.S. Duke, in Portsmouth, September 12-18, 1792, of Peter Heywood, James Morrison, Charles Norman, Joseph Coleman, Thomas Ellison, Thomas M'Intosh, Thomas Burkitt, John Millward, William Muspratt, and Michael Byrn for mutinously running away with the Bounty and deserting from His Majesty's service.
Captain Bligh and Mr Christian
Author: Richard Hough
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781861761323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bounty set out in 1788 to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies as a cheap source of food for slaves. But the combination of the tough discipline of Bligh and the attractions of life in the South Sea Islands drove Fletcher Christian and part of the crew to mutiny, and Bligh along with those loyal to him were set adrift in the ship's launch. Their remarkable 3,600-mile, open-boat voyage to Timor is one of the great feats of navigation, while the story of the mutineers' discovery of the uninhabited island of Pitcairn and their attempt to fashion a community away from the pursuing ships of the Royal Navy is as tense as it is horrific. This drama of mutiny, courage, remarkable voyages, human deceit and treachery, first published in 1972, provides an account of this episode of maritime history.
