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Original Title:	Mutiny on the Bounty
ISBN:	0316611689 (ISBN13: 9780316611688)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Bounty Trilogy #1
Setting:	Pacific Ocean Tahiti South Pacific

Mutiny on the Bounty (The Bounty Trilogy #1) Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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The British (and to a lesser degree the American) Navy in the age of sail has become a staple setting of modern English-language historical fiction, exemplified by the works of Patrick O'Brian and others. While Melville's Billy Budd and White Jacket are certainly forerunners of the trend, the main impetus to the subgenre was probably C. S. Forrester's Hornblower series; but this novel by Nordhoff and Hall was roughly contemporary with Forrester's work, and also well deserves a reading by fans of the above writers. (It's actually the opening book of a Bounty trilogy, though it's the only volume that I've read.) While it's a work of fiction, it closely follows the historical events of the H.M.S. Bounty mutiny, through the eyes of Midshipman Roger Byam, portrayed as one of the loyal crew members who were forced to remain with the mutineers because of insufficient room in the longboats used to set Bligh and his other loyalists adrift at sea (and later unjustly charged as accomplices in the mutiny).

I recall the book as having a straightforward, well-written style and an eventful plot that easily held my interest (among other things, the narrator ultimately endures an open-boat sea voyage that parallels that of Bligh and his crew earlier). The fact that it has been adapted as a movie at least twice testifies to the popular interest it has evoked; and Bligh probably "enjoys" (if that's the word!) his status as an icon for bullying tyranny to the power of this literary portrayal, and the cinematic ones based on it, to brand itself in people's minds. The authors do use a significant amount of sail-age nautical jargon and naval terminology that won't be intelligible to all readers (as a teen, for instance, I had no clue what the role of a "master-at-arms" is. or was, and the names of various parts of the ship and its rigging were Greek to me), but the novel fascinated me nonetheless!

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Title	:	Mutiny on the Bounty (The Bounty Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	April 11th 1989 by Back Bay Books (first published 1932)
Categories	:	Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Literature. Classic Literature

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This book fulfills part of my goal to read 5 book from my 2017 Rorie Gilmore reading list. One more to go before the end of the year! 3.75 stars I listed to the audio book version which was so well done! Charlton Griffin did an exceptional job. The music and the sound of the waves add to the story! I am half tempted to read the 'real' story of the Mutiny of the HMS Bounty but this satisfies my needs.I know the sea was a career and a escape from England, but being stuck, days, weeks and months

Excellent story,the b/w movie with Clarke Gable is worth watching too.

This is one of the best known classic sea adventure stories. Based on a true event.



A clear, rapid, and well paced read. It's a fantastic story, which started to seem to be a little bit shallow and I thought I would walk away with less emotional depth than the tale warranted, but I was disproved in the shattering and multi-faceted end. This bumped it from 3 to 4 stars. Well written from the perspective of a late 18th century naval officer in training, which is important to remember in certain sections. And for the Bligh apologists out there, I get you, but he's also no charmer

Fascinating account of an open water journey across the south Pacific. Bligh's crew mutiny and send him off the ship with a small crew of faithfuls. An expert seaman, he demonstrates incredible leadership when he pilots this small rowboat and a handful of men across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Their bravery and resourcefulness are surpassed, in my opinion, only by Earnest Shackelton who made a similar trek under conditions even more trying.

Somewhat fictionalized account of an actual mutiny in 1788-89. Most people have seen one of the four films or the off-Broadway musical about the Bounty, which sets sail from England for Tahiti to get breadfruit trees to take to Jamaica to provide a cheap food source for slaves. When Captain William Bligh attempts to take the ship west through the navigational nightmare around Cape Horn, the cruel captain has a mutiny on his hands, led by Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. There are two sequels to