Bounty Mutiny William Bligh,
Publisher: Tandem Library
ISBN: 0613642570
DDC: 919.504
Edition: School & Library Binding; 2003-07
Summary:
The 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.
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