The Mutiny of the Bounty Author:John Barrow, Gavin Kennedy (Editor) In December 1787, the Bounty sailed from Spithead for the South Seas. In April 1789, her crew mutinied near the Friendly Islands and set the commander, William Bligh, and several companions adrift on the ocean in an open boat. The mutineers took Tahitian wives and settled on an uninhabited and virtually unknown island where tw... more »enty years later one survivor and many of their descendants were discovered. Bligh, himself, safely navigated his boat-load of starving shipmates thousands of miles across the ocean to Timor.« less
ISBN-13: 9780879233433 ISBN-10: 0879233435 Publication Date: 1980 Pages:208 Edition:1st U.S. ed Rating: