Sir John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, pieced together the first connected history of the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789: the breadfruit voyage to Tahiti, the seizure of the ship by Fletcher Christian, Bligh’s astonishing open-boat voyage to Timor, the court-martial of the mutineers who were caught, and the discovery of the community founded on Pitcairn Island.
The book that fixed the Bounty story in the public mind, still a vivid read. Download the free EPUB.