Mutiny on the Bounty

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494 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 2009 by Doubleday Canada.

ISBN:
978-0-385-66635-0
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OCLC Number:
271433265

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4 stars (1 review)

Fourteen-year-old John Turnstile is on his way to prison when he gets a surprise offer: his freedom if he will serve as replacement for the injured valet of a captain whose ship is about to sail on an important mission. The ship is the HMS "Bounty", the captain is William Bligh, and their destination is Tahiti. The story paints a very different portrait of Bligh and the mutinous Fletcher Christian.

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4 stars

I checked this out of the library with only a passing familiarity with the Bounty and was pleasantly surprised. John's narrative is very easy to read and most expert at pulling you in; you really get a sense of the times in the text, which is important for any sort of historical frame of reference. I could easily see it appealing to younger readers, and it seems to serve as a relatively accurate account of things with a healthy dollop of hero-worship for Bligh included.

Subjects

  • Cabin boys
  • Bounty Mutiny (1789) fast (OCoLC)fst00837141
  • Sea stories
  • Historical fiction
  • Naval History
  • Bounty Mutiny, 1789
  • Bounty (Ship)
  • Mutiny
  • Fiction

Places

  • Great Britain