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Mister Christian: The Further Adventures of Fletcher Christian, Legendary Leader

Mister Christian: The Further Adventures of Fletcher Christian, Legendary Leader of the Bounty Mutiny. Paperback - 1996

by Kinsolving, William

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The bestselling author of Bred to Win and Born with the Century rescues one of history's most fascinating characters--Bounty mutiny leader Fletcher Christian--from his presumed violent end at the hands of natives on Pitcairn Island, and thrusts him into a rousing and exhilarating tale of high adventure, romance, and treachery at sea.

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1996. Advance Reader's Proof. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1996. 15.5 x 23.5cm. 380 pages. Original softcover in protective cover. Excellent condition. Signed by author on title page. Spanning a period of more than 20 years following the 1789 mutiny aboard the HMS Bounty, this captivating yarn chronicles the subsequent derring-do of chief mutineer Fletcher Christian. In 1810, a man languishing in Bedlam, the infamous English insane asylum, claims to be Fletcher Christian, long presumed dead. A progressive doctor allows him to write his story as a form of therapy, and so begins a rousing adventure tale as Fletcher relates how he escaped a native uprising on his South Sea island and returned circuitously to England. En route, he rescues Daphne, a beautiful duchess, from pirates, only to be marooned with her briefly on a Caribbean island. Their love keeps Fletcher returning to England after each flight from authorities, each terrible hardship abroad and forced tour at sea. England and France are fast at war, and impressment into the navy is a constant threat. Fletcher sails as a common seaman into some great battles alongside the likes of Lord Horatio Nelson, and dangerously close to his old nemesis, Captain Bligh. He also contends with pirates and is imprisoned by them for years at a time. While landbound, he is shunned by his family but befriended by his old neighbors, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, who tend to him during an illness, while their friend Samuel Coleridge supplies laudanum and picks Fletcher's brain for details of life at sea. Whenever he can, Fletcher schemes to meet with Daphne, under assumed names and a few steps ahead of a persistent Home Office detective. Kinsolving (The Diplomat's Daughter) maintains a relentless pace through all the period detail, and his clever interstitching of historical fact and wild imagination creates an old-fashioned romantic saga that is both outrageous and credible. [From Publishers Weekly]
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From the rear cover

On April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard HMS Bounty and forced Capt. William Bligh and eighteen men overboard. History tells us that the mutineers settled on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific where their idyll came to a violent end in a native uprising. But there are numerous historical incidents suggesting that Christian was not killed and managed to escape. In Kinsolving's novel, Christian does escape, and subsequently frees a beautiful young Englishwoman, Daphne, from debauched privateers. Together they reach a deserted island where they fall deeply in love - a love that sustains them both through the worst of times that follow. Finally rescued, they find their way by separate routes to England, where Christian is ever on the run - from the navy, from the law, and from Bligh.

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About the author

William Kinsolving is a writer and actor from New York. During his career, Kinsolving worked on over fifty screenplays and numerous novels.

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