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Mutiny on the Bounty volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
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Recounts the events which took place on the high seas during 1789 in which there was a mutiny on the English ship Bounty and the resulting trial of the participants upon returning to England.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers...
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Pub. Date
[1973]
Description
The mutiny on the Bounty: Hollywood and the best-selling literary treatments made it seem like fiction. But it was real. The descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian concubines have populated tiny, remote Pitcairn Island in the South Seas for nearly two centuries......taken from fly leaf
6) The Bounty
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and his cruelties become more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stage a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
"Captain Bligh and the voyage of the Bounty are the starting point of this new study of the famous mutiny in history, literature and film. By juxtaposing an account of the mutiny with an analysis of its evolving place in history and culture, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language offers a new interpretation of the mutiny in the context of its historical and cultural representations." "Beginning with an analysis of naval life and ritual aboard the Bounty, Greg Dening...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"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...
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