Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety - 6,705 kms Across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat by John Toohey

Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety - 6,705 kms Across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat by John Toohey

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781875989744
Author: John Toohey
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove
Place: Potts Point NSW
Year: 2001
Format: Paperback
Pages: 214 pages
Period: 18th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor edgewear. Sunning of pages.

At dawn on April 28, 1789, Captain William Bligh and eighteen men from HMS Bounty were herded onto a twenty-three-foot launch and abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Thus began their extraordinary journey to Java. Covering 6.705kms, the small boat was battered by continuous storms, and the men on board suffered crippling illness, near starvation, and attacks by islanders.

The journey was one of the greatest achievements in the history of European seafaring and a personal triumph for a man who has been misjudged by history.

Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare reveals Bligh's great map-making skills, used to particular effect while he was exploring with Captain Cook. We discover his guilt over Cook's death at Kealakekua Bay. We learn of the failure of the Bounty expedition and the myths that surround the mutiny led by Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, the trials and retributions that followed Bligh's return to England, his successes as a navigator and as a vice admiral fighting next to Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen.

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