The Bounty
The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

It all started with breadfruit. A guy called Joseph Banks spotted it when he was with Captain Cook on Tahiti. Joseph Banks later became a major ideas man and fixer for the British Empire ™ which was at that point in Phase One (steal anything that’s not nailed down in which case steal the nails and th......more

I was really excited to continue my obsession with seafaring adventures and open boat journeys. This book, while well researched, gets so bogged down in the details of every person ever connected with any part of the story, that you never get a clear idea of what is going on. Perhaps if you were alr......more

This was exactly my kind of book; the history of something I knew a little bit about where you end up finding it is even more interesting than you thought. I saw the film Mutiny on the Bounty in my early teens and it must have had an effect on me – whether it was the notion of rebellion, of living a......more

" I picked up this book simply for some light bedtime reading and promptly lost a full night's sleep because I couldn't put it down. Alexander's painstakingly reconstructed narrative of the iconic mutiny is absolutely spellbinding. One has to admire the stamina of any historian who pours through thou......more

The Bounty A completely thorough and exhaustive history of just about every aspect of this case in which the author has intended to reverse the negative opinions of the infamous Lieutenant Bligh. In what we can now refer to as Exhibit A in Bligh’s defense is his astonishing navigation in the Bounty’s......more