The Mutiny On Board H.M.S. Bounty 1789

Description

hardbound with dust-jacket, leather cloth, gilted title on spine, unpaginated, with black & white illustrations, with separate photo of “HMS Bounty”. ISBN: 0-861134-032-9.

This book is a facsimile of Bligh”s log which recounts the mutiny and Bligh”s 4000 mile voyage in an open boat to Timor.

The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship, HMS Bounty, from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship’s open launch. The reasons behind the mutiny are still debated. Bligh and his crew stopped for supplies on Tofua, where a crew member was killed. Bligh navigated more than 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) in the launch to reach safety and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island.