Although certainly the most famous mutiny in history, the outbreak aboard the British ship Bounty in the South Seas on April 28, 1789, is known to the public only through the series of rather ...

On April 28, 1789, the men aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, a British naval vessel commanded by Captain William Bligh, mounted a legendary mutiny. Having spent several idyllic months on the island of ...

The item was among a collection connected to Lt William Bligh, who captained HMS Bounty on its fateful mission to the South Pacific in 1789. After the mutiny, Bligh navigated 4,000 miles (6,500 km ...

but few tales from the high seas resonate like Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s 1932 book Mutiny On The Bounty. This seafaring yarn is drawn from what is widely considered (by the ...

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 ...

What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of? “Doctor Dogbody’s Leg,” by James Norman Hall, one half of the duo that brought us the 1932 novel “Mutiny on the Bounty.” It’s the ...