The Bounty
By Caroline Alexander
- Release Date: 2003-09-15
- Genre: European History
Description
Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions.
More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.
Reviews
Great Retelling of the Famous Mutiny
5By C.E. SmithAn excellent compilation of well researched records, bringing light to naval history's most famous mutiny and amazing events that followed. The author takes readers before and beyond the mutiny, with insights on the crew and their family relations and desperate efforts, as well as the court martial records and naval logs. A great read with significant detail.
