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The Bounty set out in 1788 to transport breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies as a cheap source of food for slaves. But the combination of the tough discipl
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-03-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was o
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Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald). The eighteenth century was a
Bligh
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-01 - Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply o
In Bligh's Hand
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Authors: Jennifer Gall
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After the mutiny on the Bounty on 28 April 1789, led by Fletcher Christian, Captain William Bligh and 18 others were forced onto a 7-metre-long open boat and ca