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A Voyage to the South Sea
William Bligh
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A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.
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The east side of the bay being not so thick of wood as the other parts, and the soil being good, I fixed on it, at Nelson's recommendation, as the most proper situation for planting some of the fruit-trees which I had brought from the Cape of Good Hope. A circumstance much against anything succeeding here is that in the dry season the fires made by the natives are apt to communicate to the dried grass and underwood, and to spre. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Captain Bligh's story
I read the Mutiny on the Bounty type stories about 50 years ago. More recently, I read this and Mr. Bligh's bad language. Fletcher Christian is hardly mentioned here. A story of survival and one that will give you a wholly different outlook on the traditional story.
The title of the one I read was "A voyage to the South Sea: undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; and an account of the mutiny on board H.M.S. Bounty and the s
Bligh's diary and account of his voyage on the Bounty. It's interesting as an anthropology and tale of survival.
A fascinating account of the voyage to Tahiti and the mutiny on the Bounty from Captain Bligh's point of view. A well written tale of sea travel and later survival.
(Added an extra star because this in a subject that I particularly enjoy)
Probably the most important source of one those great examples of human endurance and courage that was the Mutiny on the Bounty.
When reading this its worth bearing in mind that this account was produced immediately following h
Great read - or listen, rather. Try libirvox.
Bligh really transports you to that era. After finishing this one, all I can say is, "shame on you Hollywood, for putting so much Hollywood into the 1935 flick."
The actual mutiny is a very small part of the narrative - which makes sense. The part that I s