Mutiny on the Bounty (novel)
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Mutiny on the "Bounty" is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of HMAV Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films, and a musical. It was the first of what became "The Bounty Trilogy", which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn Island.
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Plot introduction
The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood. Byam, although not one of the mutineers, remains with the Bounty after the mutiny. He subsequently returns to Tahiti, and is eventually arrested and taken back to England to face a court-martial. He, and several other members of the crew, are eventually acquitted.Characters in \"Mutiny on the Bounty\"
- Roger Byam – main protagonist, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood
- William Bligh – Lieutenant and commander of the HMAV Bounty
- Fletcher Christian – eventual mutineer
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
- In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) (notable as the first film to introduce Errol Flynn to movie audiences, as Fletcher Christian)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
- The Bounty'' (1984)
Further reading
- Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 067003133X
- William Bligh, Meuterei auf der Bounty, Erdmann Verlag Tübingen. Description of actual travel logs by W. Bligh, published 1791 and 1793 by Georg Forster and his father in Berlin as "Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen".
Other
A first Novel Les Révoltés de la Bounty (The Mutineers of the Bounty) was published by Jules Verne in 1879.External links
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