The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bountyby William Bligh | |
| List(s): | "Extreme Classics" |
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| Category: |
"World History - Military" |
| Pages: | 238 |
| Year of Publication: | 1792 |
| Date Read: | 08/21/1988 |
| Notes: | The most celebrated mutiny in the annals of the sea and the subsequent 3,600-mile South Sea voyage in an open boat were recorded by Bligh amidst all the perils. In this deeply personal yet objective narrative based upon his ship's log, Bligh documents the voyage of the Bounty and his relationship to his men — thereby posing the endlessly debated question of what manner of man he really was: a sadistic disciplinarian or a stern but just captain, a superb seaman, the victim of a rash young man made frantic by the loss of an island paradise? |
| My Rating: | 7 |