The best-known sea story of all time is brought to vivid life in an immaculate and rigorously researched history by the best-selling author of The Endurance. This is the first ever history of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty.
Of all the sea tales told down the ages, none has held its mystique so long as the mutiny on board HM Bounty. The enmity of the young, headstrong Master's Mate Fletcher Christian for his captain, William Bligh, still remains mystifying. Christian's rash and uncharacteristic usurpation of power on an April morning two hundred years ago, made him a fugitive for the rest of his life.
Dragged along with him, willingly or not, were ten men who were eventually brought to justice and forced to stand trial in England for Christian's deed. Caroline Alexander's stunning new book is the first general non-fiction account. Told through the trial of the ten mutineers, Alexander uses the language of the mutineers – rough, salty and piratical – to bring them alive in the text. As each man conjures the events, the reader is transported back to the South Pacific, to the creaking deck of the Bounty and to Tahiti.
A central strand of the story is Bligh's extraordinary 3,000 mile voyage in a long-boat, where his discipline and self-will ensure that the entire crew (the men who remained loyal to him) survives with only starvation rations.The mutineers meant them to die a slow, terrible death in Pacific waters. Fletcher Christian's fate, the capture of the mutineers, their harsh voyage back to England and what awaits them there – are all given fresh interpretation. The book breaks down the myth surrounding Fletcher Christian, while Captain Bligh is reinstated as a hero.
As the story unfolds, a unique picture of London and Plymouth in the turbulent years between 1789 and 1793 comes to light. The popular press, so vital in telling the story of the mutiny to the nation, is in its infancy, revolution is in the air, and poets give words to national feeling. Alexander uses this vivid archive material to give her history the texture of a novel.
Alexander's The Endurance sparked off the unabating interest in Shackleton. We aim to do the same with The Bounty.
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Caroline Alexander was born in Florida, of British parents and has lived in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. She studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and has a doctorate in classics from Columbia University. She founded a department of Classics in Malawi over several years. She has written for most major newspapers and magazines, chiefly The New Yorker, Granta, and National Geographic. Her latest book, The Endurance was a best-seller here and in the US and has been translated into 13 languages.
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.72. Codice articolo G0007172834I5N00
Descrizione libro 1st Ed. (20), 491 PP, plus 40 pages with 10 colour and 50 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.2 x 15.2. Codice articolo 45561
Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. General edgewear. Foxing to foredges and introductory pages. Sunning of pages. 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 honour at the dawn of the Romantic age. (publishers blurb). Codice articolo 002064
Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 491 pages. Illustrated. Codice articolo PAC038
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. With 3 sections of plates to illustrate the book, a very good copy. ; 235 x 155mm; 491 pages. Codice articolo 21684