![]() His civility, though, returned as quickly as his temper flared. Several facts that bear on the mutiny are generally agreed by all authorities:Ĭaptain Bligh was a harsh disciplinarian, a man of flaring temper, seemingly mindless of the cut of his words on others. William Bligh, Bounty's commander, and the ship's crew continue unabated. Questions that may never be answered about Lt. In terms of mutinies it was not exceptional as far as after-the-fact analyses are concerned, it is the most studied of all mutinies. OCLC 665035113.Mutiny on HMS Bounty From the ' Bounty Chronicles' (by John Hagan), 28 original oil paintingsĭepicting characters and scenes of the HMAV Bounty.Īfter nearly two centuries and a decade the mutiny that took place on HMS Bounty on April 28, 1789, continues to command attention. Nordhoff, Charles Hall, James Norman (2008).Commentary on the novel and how it influenced the film(s) and popular perception of the events comparison between three of the films. Mutiny on the Bounty at Faded Page (Canada).Karl Ernst Alwyn Lorbach, 'Conspiracy on the Bounty: Bligh's Convenient Mutiny', printed University of Queensland, 2012, hardcover/Kindle/ePub, 366 pages, ISBN 978-0-980.William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty 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., London, 1790–94.Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 3-X.The Bounty review: How Peter FitzSimons and Alan Frost see the mutiny. The true story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. It was written by and starred David Essex.Īn earlier novel, Les Révoltés de la Bounty ( The Mutineers of the Bounty), was published by Jules Verne in 1879. A musical based on the same story appeared in the West End during the 1980s.William Bligh – Lieutenant and commander of the Bountyįilm, TV and theatrical adaptations.Roger Byam – main protagonist, loosely based on the life of midshipman Peter Heywood but with differences in the book it is claimed that Byam's only living relative was his mother who died of shock after William Bligh had accused her son of being an active mutineer in fact, Heywood had several siblings his mother survived his court-martial- although his sister Nessy Heywood did die a year after his acquittal.He and several other members of the crew are eventually acquitted.Ĭharacters in Mutiny on the Bounty ![]() ![]() He subsequently returns to Tahiti and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on a crew member Peter Heywood. It was the first of what became The Bounty Trilogy, which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island. It has been made into several films and a musical. Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789.
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