A novel set mainly aboard naval vessels traveling between England and the South Seas from 1789 to 1793; published in 1932.
by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Synopsis
A young midshipman relates the travels of the Bounty and the mutiny that takes place aboard the vessel.
Events in History at the Time the Novel Was Written
The Novel in Focus
Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place
Charles Nordhoff and James Hall were two pilots who shared a common love of writing and adventure. Disenchanted with the post-World War I civilization, they decided to visit a place where money was not the only important medium of exchange. They subsequently journeyed to the South Seas. Shortly thereafter the two men wrote a historical novel based on an actual eighteenth-century mutiny that erupted on board a ship sailing near the island of Tahiti.
For More Information
Eggleston, George T. Tahiti. New York: Devin-Adair, 1953.
Hall, James Norman. My Island Home. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1952.
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1994.
Mackaness, George. The Life of Vice-Admiral Bligh. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1931.
McFarland, Alfred. Mutiny in the "Bounty" and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders. Sydney: J. J. Moore, 1884.
Nordhoff, Charles, and James Norman Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty. New York: Back Bay, 1932.
Punch 184 (May 3, 1933): 504.
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