I THINK I must have had some sort of hunch that this kind of book might appear. In the summer of 1930, in a small country bookshop in Essex, England, I picked up a copy of the famous old Barrow’s ...

THE FLOATING REPUBLIC—G. E. Manwaring and Bonamy Dobree—Ear court, Brace ($3). Thanks to Authors Nordhoff & Hall’s Mutiny on the Bounty and Hollywood’s cinema-diversions on the same subject (TIME, Oct ...

The 1935 version of Mutiny On the Bounty offered plenty of cameos of Southern California. (James Cagney got in the movie simply by sailing along at an opportune moment.) Certain tropical scenes were ...