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

Author: Caroline Alexander Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Adventure, Historical fiction, Travel, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780006532460 9780142004692 0006532462 0142004693

The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. Caroline Alexander focusses on the court martial of the ten mutineers captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in Portsmouth. Each figure emerges as a richly drawn character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. With enormous scholarship and exquisitely drawn characters, The Bounty is a tour de force. Similar books: Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Love Stories by Jonathan Ned Katz A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner Demon of the Waters by Gregory Gibson The Circumnavigators by Derek Wilson Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff Hen Frigates by Joan Druett Mr. Bligh's Bad Language by Greg Dening Napoleon's Privates by Tony Perrottet Foundation by Peter Ackroyd 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick