On an April morning in 1789 near the island of Tonga, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to safety in Timor. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, sailed off in the Bounty and were nev[...]
Published in 1790 and 1792, the two works reissued here together tell the story of seafaring history's most infamous mutiny.[...]