Sent to carry bread-fruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies, Lieutenant Bligh was seized in his cabin in April 1789 by Fletcher Christian and part of his crew and cast adrift with eighteen loyal men in the ship’s launch. His narrative records the mutiny and the desperate voyage that followed, rationing scraps of bread and water across thousands of miles of open sea to Timor.
The first-hand source behind the most famous mutiny in naval history, told in Bligh’s own terse seaman’s prose. Download the free EPUB.