His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty ... I’ve been fascinated by the mutiny on the Bounty. It deserves its worldwide fame, but it ...

Thanks to Authors Nordhoff & Hall’s Mutiny on the Bounty and Hollywood’s cinema-diversions on the same subject (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932; Nov. 18), that isolated outbreak on one small ship of ...