The Mutiny Of The "Bounty"
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few stories in the annals of the sea have gripped the imagination quite like the infamous rebellion aboard HMS Bounty in 1789 — a tale of tyranny, paradise, and desperate survival that has never lost its power to astonish. Set against the vast expanse of the South Pacific, this retelling chronicles the fateful voyage of Captain William Bligh and his crew, from the breadfruit groves of Tahiti to the moment Fletcher Christian led a band of mutineers to seize control of the ship, casting Bligh and eighteen loyal men adrift in a small open boat across thousands of miles of open ocean. Part of the venerable Whitcombe's Story Books series — a celebrated imprint that brought gripping historical narratives to generations of young readers across Australia and New Zealand — this compact volume presents one of history's most dramatic true stories with vivid clarity and pace. The account captures timeless themes of authority and rebellion, loyalty and longing, and the irresistible pull of an earthly paradise against the iron discipline of the British Navy. What happened to the mutineers after they vanished into the Pacific remains one of history's most extraordinary footnotes — and one that this telling renders utterly compelling.
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Genre: Maritime history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few stories in the annals of the sea have gripped the imagination quite like the infamous rebellion aboard HMS Bounty in 1789 — a tale of tyranny, paradise, and desperate survival that has never lost its power to astonish. Set against the vast expanse of the South Pacific, this retelling chronicles the fateful voyage of Captain William Bligh and his crew, from the breadfruit groves of Tahiti to the moment Fletcher Christian led a band of mutineers to seize control of the ship, casting Bligh and eighteen loyal men adrift in a small open boat across thousands of miles of open ocean. Part of the venerable Whitcombe's Story Books series — a celebrated imprint that brought gripping historical narratives to generations of young readers across Australia and New Zealand — this compact volume presents one of history's most dramatic true stories with vivid clarity and pace. The account captures timeless themes of authority and rebellion, loyalty and longing, and the irresistible pull of an earthly paradise against the iron discipline of the British Navy. What happened to the mutineers after they vanished into the Pacific remains one of history's most extraordinary footnotes — and one that this telling renders utterly compelling.