The mutiny which erupted on 28th April 1789 on board HMS Bounty, under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh RN, is one of the most celebrated of all maritime mutinies. The three letters here published together in facsimile for the first time were written by Bligh while recovering from the voyage in an open boat from Tahiti to Timor. They are his personal accounts, written for private reading by his family and friends. The first is written to Bligh's wife Elizabeth, the second is addressed to Duncan Campbell, his wife's uncle, once Bligh's employer and the third is written to Bligh's patron, Sir Joseph Banks, who was an important figure in the British exploration of the Pacific.

Awake, Bold Bligh: William Bligh's Letters Describing the Mutiny on HMS Bounty

Bligh, William

Brunton, Paul

Allen & Unwin Australia Pty. Ltd.

The Bligh notebook: Rough account, Lieutenant Wm. Bligh's voyage in the Bounty's launch from the ship to Tofua & from thence to Timor, 28 April to 14 ... : with a draft list of the Bounty mutineers

Allen & Unwin in association with the National Library of Australia

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began what would be the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to safety in Timor. The mutineers led by Fletcher Christian sailed off into a mystery that has never been entirely resolved. While the full story of what drove the men to revolt or what really transpired during the struggle may never be known, Penguin Classics has brought together-for the first time in one volume-all the relevant texts and documents related to a drama that has fascinated generations. Here is the full text of Bligh's Narrative of the Mutiny, the minutes of the court proceedings gathered by Edward Christian in an effort to clear his brother's name, and the highly polemic correspondence between Bligh and Christian-all amplified by Robert Madison's illuminating Introduction and rich selection of subsequent Bounty narratives. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Bounty Mutiny (Penguin Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

Christian, Edward

Historical

Penguin Publishing Group

A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty

A Narrative of the Mutiny On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty

History

Franklin Classics

Captain Bligh's Second Voyage to the South Sea

Lee, Ida

A Voyage To The South Sea: Undertaken By Command Of His Majesty, For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-fruit Tree To The West Indies, In His ... Bligh. Including An Account Of The Mutiny On

An Account of the Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty with an after word by Milton Rugoff

The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Signet Classics

The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty (Signet classics)

Works of fiction, among them the Charles Laughton film Mutiny on the Bounty, paint William Bligh, commander of the HMAV Bounty,as an ogre. Most paint Fletcher Christian, leader of the 1789 mutiny, as an honorable junior officer whose rebellion was justified. What's the real story? In a personal but objective narrative based on the Bounty's log, Bligh himself tells of the stormy voyage to Tahiti, his crew's insatiable attachment to the island paradise, and the incredible 3,600-mile journey to safety after the mutineers cast him-and eighteen loyal crew members-adrift in a small, open boat with few supplies. Bligh's detractors say that this narrative has many distortions and omissions; others judge it to be a remarkably dispassionate record. You decide.

The captain of the Bounty describes the ship's voyage, the mutiny, and his subsequent trip in an open boat

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