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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Hardcover - 2003

by Caroline Alexander

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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 who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective wonderfully revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty.

Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era.

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Viking Adult. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good. Spots of underlining on 4 pages. A few pages dog-eared. ; 1.6 x 9.5 x 6 Inches; 512 pages
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  • Title The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Author Caroline Alexander
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; First Printing
  • Condition Used - Good+
  • Pages 491
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Adult, New York
  • Date September 15, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2719
  • ISBN 9780670031337 / 067003133X
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.48 x 1.6 in (24.23 x 16.46 x 4.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003050158
  • Dewey Decimal Code 996.18

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Summary

Has history been wrong for 200 years?More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.

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