William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in history. His name has become a byword for cruelty; a tyrant who drove the crew of his ship, HMS Bounty, to such despair that they were forced ...
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 ...
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian ...