Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Nordhoff, Charles

Bounty trilogy comprising the three volumes, Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the sea & Pitcairn's island / The Bounty trilogy Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Boston Little Brown [1985], c1964 - viii, 691 p. 23 cm. - Bounty Bks. 1,2 & 3 .

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the sea & Pitcairn's Island

An adventure story based on fact concerning a mutiny aboard the Bounty and its aftermath. The three individual books are Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. These books were originally published in 1932, 1934, and 1934 respectively. Mutiny on the Bounty - Cherished as one of the most thrilling sea adventures ever recorded, [this] novel reprises a true story - the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Majesty's Ship Bounty in 1788-1789, which culminated in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh - and reaches peaks of narrative excitement that ...-Back cover Men against the sea - Men Against the Sea follows the events after the Mutiny on the Bounty, when Fletcher Christian and mutineers took control of the ship and set Lieutenant Bligh afloat in a small boat with members of the crew loyal to him. The story follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. Bligh exceeds with his inexhaustible determination and unfaltering leadership, saving the lives of his men and leading them through a horrific experience, to survive the South Pacific. Pitcairn's Island - "Fletcher Christian, second-in-command of the Bounty, struggles to find a permanent refuge for the people under his charge after overthrowing the captain of the ship and setting him adrift in the launch boat."

0316611662 (pbk.) 9780316611664 (pbk.)

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Bligh, William 1754-1817
Christian, Fletcher 1764-1793


Bounty Mutiny--1789


Pitcairn Island
Great Britain--History, Naval--18th century



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