Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era. Caroline Alexander Endurance, The: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition Hardcover 15 December 2014 by Caroline Alexander (Author) 579 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited 11.99 to buy Hardcover 39.49 3 Used from 13.11 10 New from 39. Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situationsthe chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters.

And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know todayof the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. This fresh perspective wonderfully revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christian's breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of history's great navigators Christian on his restless exile and the captured mutineers toward their day in court.

In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. More than two centuries have passed since Master's Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty.

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