The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty
Written by William Bligh
Narrated by Jonathan Reese
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Sail with Captain Bligh on the H.M.S. Bounty, and then follow his incredible quest for survival during his 3,600-mile trip to Timor in an open boat. It's a timeless tale of man's heroic struggle to survive against all odds!
William Bligh
William Bligh (1754–1817) was an English explorer and famed member of the Royal Navy. He joined the military at a very young age, holding multiple positions including able seaman, midshipman and sailing master. His momentous career is often overshadowed by the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. Bligh would go on to detail the event in A Narrative of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage of Part of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat. It’s a popular retelling that would inspire future interpretations of the incident.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Original documents from the Bounty trial & debacle. I had read many of these before, but they are good to have all in one volume, most especially because they are placed in chronological order so it becomes easy to see how thought developed regarding the mutiny. I was unaware, completely unaware, that the John Adams story was originally published in Beechey's narrative or, at least, the most complete version of it. Another reason to find an original copy! Good stuff and a must read for anyone interested intravel, adventure, history, naval history, South Pacific, etc. Finished reading 5 April 2015, Easter Day, east of Falmouth England.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great collection of original documents about the Mutiny on the Bounty. Together they tell as good a sea yarn as any novel, complete with a Rashomon-like quality as two parties to the mutiny see everything in precisely opposite ways -- while agreeing on fragments of key details. There is some repetition, especially in some of the transcripts from the trial and testimonial letters on the character of Captain Bligh. This repetition, however, contributes to an almost biblical quality to the text as it lists names after names, retells the same story from different perspectives, and compiles narratives with more straightforward information.
Specifically, the items included in this volume are:
--Captain's Bligh's account of the mutiny and his 4,000 mile journey to safety in a long boat following it. Told in precise nautical terms -- dwelling less on the mutiny and more on how he survived following it and what he discovered in the process.
--A partial transcript of the court martial of the mutineers compiled with an appendix by Edward Christian, brother of the chief mutineer Fletcher Christian. This is intended to be largely exculpatory for his brother, arguing the Bligh was a borderline-psychotic taskmaster.
--A reply to the Appendix by Bligh and a short reply-to-the-reply by Christian.
--Captain's Bligh's orders and discoveries.
--An account of a mutineer captured on Tahiti and his transport back to England.
--Two news accounts of the discovery of the last surviving mutineer on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific.
--An account by "Jenny," who lived on Pitcairn Island. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It never ceases to amaze me just how interesting the same events described over and over in the driest possible historical professional tone can actually be, when the stakes are high enough. The chapters of this describing the post-mutiny trip of nineteen people in a ship's boat over 3,000 miles, mostly on open sea, is fascinating. The pre-mutiny chapters on the islands are interesting, in the way historical accounts of interactions with natives are always interesting, if a little offputting at times. The very earliest and very latest chapters are basically a chronicle of a naval officer doing his duty in poorly-charted waters and are very, very boring. (Obviously this is by the man's own hand, so Bligh comes off reasonably well in this book - or rather, he doesn't come off badly. He professes not the slightest understanding of why anyone would mutiny against him, which I think I believe. It does eventually become apparent that in the entire journey from the Bounty to Timor, he never ones mentions something that any of the other eighteen people in that boat actually did on their own initiative, and I find that both unlikely and somewhat telling of the narrator.)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great collection of original documents about the Mutiny on the Bounty. Together they tell as good a sea yarn as any novel, complete with a Rashomon-like quality as two parties to the mutiny see everything in precisely opposite ways -- while agreeing on fragments of key details. There is some repetition, especially in some of the transcripts from the trial and testimonial letters on the character of Captain Bligh. This repetition, however, contributes to an almost biblical quality to the text as it lists names after names, retells the same story from different perspectives, and compiles narratives with more straightforward information.Specifically, the items included in this volume are:--Captain's Bligh's account of the mutiny and his 4,000 mile journey to safety in a long boat following it. Told in precise nautical terms -- dwelling less on the mutiny and more on how he survived following it and what he discovered in the process.--A partial transcript of the court martial of the mutineers compiled with an appendix by Edward Christian, brother of the chief mutineer Fletcher Christian. This is intended to be largely exculpatory for his brother, arguing the Bligh was a borderline-psychotic taskmaster.--A reply to the Appendix by Bligh and a short reply-to-the-reply by Christian.--Captain's Bligh's orders and discoveries.--An account of a mutineer captured on Tahiti and his transport back to England.--Two news accounts of the discovery of the last surviving mutineer on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific.--An account by "Jenny," who lived on Pitcairn Island.