This classic of maritime history--which first appeared in 1831--records the full intriguing story of the mutiny of the Bounty . Based on his research of unpublished documents and the papers of Captain Peter Heywood, a midshipman on the Bounty , Sir John Barrow answers the two crucial questions raised by the incident: why the crew of the Bounty mutinied in the first place, and why an officer instigated and led the mutiny.
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This classic of maritime history--which first appeared in 1831--records the full intriguing story of the mutiny of the Bounty . Based on his research of unpublished documents and the papers of Captain Peter Heywood, a midshipman on the Bounty , Sir John Barrow answers the two crucial questions raised by the incident: why the crew of the Bounty mutinied in the first place, and why an officer instigated and led the mutiny.
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