Mutiny on the Bounty
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1989-04-11
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A British crew mutinies against the cruel commander of the Bounty in 1787.
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1989-04-11
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A British crew mutinies against the cruel commander of the Bounty in 1787.
Author: Peter FitzSimons
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0733634125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 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: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 0802795870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of the tragic voyage of the British ship to the island of Tahiti.
Author: Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0300170289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Parallels mutinies in today's business organizations with the shipboard rebellions of old. 15,000 first printing.
Author: Robert W. Kirk
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786493845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808, when American sealing vessel Topaz stopped at the island, John Adams was the only mutineer alive. He, however, headed what was soon discovered to be a utopianlike Christian society. Beginning with a background look at the circumstances surrounding the mutiny, this volume contains a detailed history of the Pitcairn Islanders from the original settlement through the opening years of the 21st century. The island's isolation is contrasted with the international attention garnered from its captivating history, making the society a one-of-a-kind historical conundrum. Helpful maps and photographs enhance the reader's experience.
Author: Sir John Barrow
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 259
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers the history of HMS Bounty's mutiny, which occurred in 1789. It occurred in the South Pacific Ocean, where disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.
Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1632866129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British exploration and colonization. Indeed, 9 convicts from the Australian penal colony, led by Mary Bryant, also traveled 3,250 miles across the open ocean and some uncharted seas to land at the same port Bligh had reached only months before. In this meticulously researched dual narrative of survival, acclaimed historian Diana Preston provides the background and context to explain the thrilling open-boat voyages each party survived and the Pacific Island nations each encountered on their journey to safety. Through this deep-dive, readers come to understand the Pacific Islands as they were and as they were perceived, and how these seemingly utopian lands became a place where mutineers, convicts, and eventually the natives themselves, were chained.
Author: Maurice Allward
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780752417462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pictorial history of Pitcairn Island one of the most remote islands in the world telling the story of the Island's discovery, the Mutiny on the Bounty (filmed five times) and the settlement of the island by mutineers and their subsequent settlement of Norfolk Island which ultimately became the most infamous penal settlement of all time.
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1985-07-30
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 9780316611664
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Wyeth edition of the three tales of the Bounty.
Author: William Bligh
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1602911622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page eBook retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Sail the seas in good weather and bad on the ship H.M.S. Bounty. Flounder in a hurricane as you try to round Cape Horn. Sail to the South Seas the long way, around the Cape of Good Hope and through the Indian Ocean. Enjoy the idyllic island life and decide for yourself if the men on the Bounty should have mutinied against Captain Bligh. Find out what happened when the Captain and his men were put off the Bounty in a small rowboat with little food or water. Did they make it?