Mutiny on the Bounty; Men Against the Sea; Pitcairn's Island: The Bounty Trilogy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mutiny on the Bounty; Men Against the Sea; Pitcairn's Island\nON the twenty-third of December, 1787, His Majesty's armed transport Bounty sailed from Portsmouth on as strange, event ful, and tragic a voyage as ever befell an English ship. Her errand was to proceed to the island of Tahiti (or Otaheite, as it was then called) in the Great South Sea, there to collect a cargo of young breadfruit trees for transportation to the West Indies, where, it was hoped, the trees would thrive and thus, eventually, provide an abundance of cheap food for the negro slaves of the English planters.