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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

by Caroline Alexander

The mutiny and the making of its legend

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The mutiny and the making of its legend

Caroline Alexander examines the mutiny aboard the Bounty alongside the story that grew around it. The book covers the principal figures, causes and aftermath, and considers how the interests of two powerful families helped shape the account handed down over more than two centuries. That approach connects the voyage’s history to larger questions of duty, authority, reputation and the power to influence public memory. The result is a historical account concerned both with events and with how those events came to be remembered.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of the Bounty mutiny and its aftermath.
  • Readers exploring how historical reputations and accounts are shaped.
  • Readers interested in themes of duty, power and honor in history.

Themes

The Bounty mutinyHistorical memory and mythDuty and authorityPower and reputation

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Book overview

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.
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