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More than two centuries have passed since Masters Mate Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lieutenant Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the Bounty mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who were captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in England. This fresh perspective wonderfully revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christians breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course: Bligh and his loyalists on the historic open boat voyage that revealed him to be one of historys great navigators; Christian on his restless exile; and the captured mutineers toward their day in court. As the book unfolds, each figure emerges as a full-blown character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows. And as Alexander shows, it was in a desperate fight to escape hanging that one of the accused defendants deliberately spun the mutiny into the myth we know today-of the tyrannical Lieutenant Bligh of the Bounty. Ultimately, Alexander concludes that the Bounty mutiny was sparked by that most unpredictable, combustible, and human of situations-the chemistry between strong personalities living in close quarters. Her account of the voyage, the trial, and the surprising fates of Bligh, Christian, and the mutineers is an epic of ambition, passion, pride, and duty at the dawn of the Romantic era.
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Praise for The Bounty
With all the drama and intrigue of a rollicking adventure novel, Alexanders beautifully written and painstakingly researched book goes a long way to rehabilitate one of historys most notorious villains: Bounty commander Lt. William Bligh. Through letters, court testimony, and personal diaries, Alexander vividly re-creates the mutiny, the details of which changed, Rashomon -like, depending on the crew member telling the story.
Entertainment Weekly
A captivating and properly salty account. The Bounty is a retelling of a remembered story in the grand manner. Alexander is particularly good at bringing to the fore lesser-known parts of the Bounty s story.
The Boston Globe
Caroline Alexander has written a fine work of nonfiction, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, that will set the record straight and have readers searching for their Dramamine, so real is the action depicted therein. Her retelling of Blighs amazing feat of navigationusing the twenty-three-foot launch that he and a group of men were put into after the mutiny... would make a fine tale of seagoing heroism in itself. Alexander also gives us the story of the Pandora, the ship that collected some scattered mutineers for court-martial, and spins an amazing account of what happened to the Bounty, to Fletcher Christian and to the remaining mutineers who eventually settled on Pitcairn. All in all, The Bounty is a wealth of historical documentation, public record and narrative acumen. A breath of fresh, salty, sea air tossed upon the landlocked head of the unquestioning public. Alexander weaves various accounts and narratives into a seamless whole, making The Bounty the definitive word regarding one of the most infamous adventures ever to take place on the high seas. The Denver Post
Alexander shows that this extraordinary story doesnt need the [Hollywood] Dream Machine to enhance its inherent interest. Alexander helps both explain the popularity of this famous tale and dispel its many invented events.
Houston Chronicle
Readers will find the true story in Caroline Alexanders The Bounty, a fascinating book based on court testimony, diaries and other primary sources that draws a picture very different from the popular version. Alexander, author of the equally excellent volume The Endurance, produces a vivid narrative with psychological depth and a keen understanding of historical context.
BookPage
In her captivating 1998 bestseller The Endurance, Alexander rescued from the mists of history the saga of Ernest Shackletons heroic 1914-1915 Antarctic expedition, shipwreck and small-boat voyage to safety against all odds. She does the same for William Bligh in The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. The court-martial of the ten Bounty crewmen... reads like a courtroom thriller, so adeptly does Alexander compare the often contradictory statements of the accused and the witnesses. Alexanders description of Blighs 3,618-mile forty-eight-day voyage to safety over the raging South Pacific in a tiny open boat under starvation rations is both fascinating and credible. [Bligh] died in 1813, honored by his navy but soon to be reviled by history. The Bounty ought to change all that. Chicago Sun-Times
Alexander brilliantly shows how the rise of the Romantic hero in Western civilization served the treacherous Christian better than it did the irritable but courageous Bligh, whose forty-eight-day ordeal in an open boat remains one of historys great feats of seamanship. Chicago Tribune
Remembered as a villain, the Bounty s captain was something closer to a hero... yet it is the mutineer who claims posteritys sympathy, while Bligh remains a byword for sadistic tyranny.... Against what Alexander characterizes as the power of a good story Bligh stood no chance... [but] Alexander constructs a good story of her own from the historical record. The Bounty ... will please its readers. Los Angeles Times
Alexander has risen to the demands of an epic, adding even more resonance to one of the greatest mysteries of the sea.
The Seattle Times
Alexander has done a remarkably skilled job of pulling together information from a multitude of sources... to retell a familiar story in a new light.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
[C]arefully documented... original and thought-provoking.
Library Journal
Alexander takes and gives most pleasure in recounting the open boat voyage that Bligh and the few loyal members of his crew took in a small boat after the mutiny. She breaks new ground in scholarship in showing how the court-martial afterwards protected the well connected and condemned the possibly innocent and certainly poorer men. Alexander makes great arguments and turns the weight of historical opinion on its head... she does well enough to make the story feel new and even more complicated than before.
Orlando Sentinel
Alexander shows her skill for bleeding drama from the seemingly parched carcass of history.... This important, gripping history is about very human misjudgments and their tragic consequences.
Seattle Weekly
Retelling a familiar story, yet taking a fresh look at the drama... Alexanders reconstruction of the mutiny and its aftermath is almost as remarkable as Blighs feat. Separating facts from falsehoods in the closing chapters... Alexanders work is destined to become the definitive, enthralling history of a great seafaring adventure. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Alexander shows us in compelling detail a far more complex set of characters and situations than we usually encounter in the many tellings of this story.... From these pages, Bligh emerges as a masterly commander during times of serious crisis. Rocky Mountain News
[A] compelling sea adventure... [and] an extraordinary work of historical research. The Bounty deserves to be read as a wild and fascinating story of British history and adventure on the high seas in an age of unparalleled exploration and naval superiority. But perhaps Alexander serves a greater need: she shows that truth is elusive, subject to the interpretation of historical social movements, and can be radically reinterpreted, even after centuries.
The Oregonian (Portland)
A riveting, exhaustively researched narrative.
Boston Herald
Blending a smooth interpretation of events with primary-source material, Alexander profiles historys most famous mutiny in the same stylish manner she brought to Shackletons Antarctic expedition. There is no dearth of original material to work from when piecing together what happened aboard the Bounty in 1789... and Alexander has harvested all the best of it. She offers fascinating and credible explanations for the rise of the Fletcher Christian myth, and the devolution of Bligh to join the ranks of Quisling and Legree. A great sea story, handled with dexterity to capture characters and circumstances with faithfulness to the record and a steady feeling of anticipation for history in the making. Kirkus Reviews
The definitive account. Newsday
[A]bsorbing. Daily News (New York)
Why the details of this obscure adventure at the end of the world remain vivid and enthralling is as intriguing as the truth behind the legend. In giving the mutiny its historical due, Caroline Alexander... revivifies the entire saga, and the salty, colorful language of the captured men themselves conjures the events of that April morning in 1789, when Christians breakdown impelled every man on a fateful course.
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