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The Bounty Mutiny: Captain William Bligh's Firsthand Account of the Last Voyage of HMS Bounty | 
 enlarge | Author: William Bligh
Publisher: Red and Black Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 941402
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1934941069
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781934941065
ASIN: 1934941069
Publication Date: February 15, 2008
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Product Description
On April 28, 1789. the crew of the HMS Bounty, returning from Tahiti with a cargo of breadfruit plants, mutinied and set their captain and 17 crew members adrift in a small boat. In a remarkable feat of seamanship, Bligh took the 23-foot boat over 3600 miles, in 41 days, to safety in Indonesia. This is Bligh;s own account of the mutiny and his incredible voyage to safety.
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A detailed account June 3, 2008
Many of us have seen the movies about The Bounty Mutiny with Marlon Brando or Mel Gibson. But this book is Captain Bligh's own version of the story as he presented it in front of the court martial judges, and it is a different tale from the one in the movies. While the movies depict Bligh as a cruel man who drove his crew to mutiny through his own sadism, the court martial actually concluded that Bligh had done nothing wrong. In fact, the court praised Bligh for his heroic actions in guiding his marooned crewmates over a thousand miles in open sea in a small boat, a fascinating tale of survival. If you want to know the real history of the Bounty instead of the movie version, then this book is the one for you.
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