by William Bligh & Edward Christian
"Highly recommended . . . Anyone interested in the Bounty mutiny should own this book.” Nathaniel Philbrick
The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. On an April morning in 1789, near the island known today as Tonga, William Bligh and eighteen loyal 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.
Here, in one volume, are all the relevant texts and documents related to a drama that has fascinated generations: 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.
A Penguin Classics edition, edited with an Introduction by R. D. Madison.
- Paperback
- 254 pages
- ISBN: 9780140439168