Mutiny on the Bounty (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: England, South Pacific, and Tahiti
- Principal Characters: Lieutenant William Bligh, Roger Byam, Fletcher Christian, George Stewart, Tehani
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Justice, Maturation or coming of age, Love or romance, Leadership, Friendship, Law or legislation, England or English people, Islands, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, Shipwrecks, Adventure, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Navies, Ocean, Mutiny, Tahiti, Tropics
- Locales: England, Canary Islands, Tahiti, South Pacific
The Story:
In 1787, Roger Byam accepted Lieutenant Bligh’s offer of a berth as midshipman on HMS Bounty, a ship commissioned by the English government to carry the edible breadfruit tree of Tahiti to English possessions in the West Indies, to be used there as a cheap food supply for the black slaves of English planters. Byam’s special commission was to work at the task of completing a study of the Tahitian language for the use of English seamen. After filling the ship’s roster and getting favorable weather, the Bounty set sail, and Midshipman Byam began to...
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