The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

ISBN-13: 9780142004692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 544 str.

Caroline Alexander

Opis

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 honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.

Recenzje

"Alexander's vigorous retelling in ''The Bounty'' leads to lots of vigorous rethinking." -- The New York Times

Spis treści

The BountyShip's Company
Author's Note

Prelude
Pandora
Bounty
Voyage Out
Tahiti
Mutiny
Return
Portsmouth
Court-Martial
Defense
Sentence
Judgment
Latitude 25° S, Longitude 130° W
Home Is The Sailor

A Note on Sources
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

O autorze

Caroline Alexander is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Endurance as well as four other books. She has written for The New Yorker, Granta, Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic.